Author: Beevor, Antony and Vinogradova, Luba (ed. and trans. by),
Title: A WRITER AT WAR - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945.
Description: Pimlico, London,ND (circa 2012), reprint, paperback, xxi, 378 pp. half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. in text, coloured map inside front cover, phto pictorial wrappers, the author was deemed unfit for military service against the germans when they invaded Russia in 1941 and he became a reporter for the Red Army Newspaper, Red Star, and witnessed many of the major events of that war, the desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and the fighting in the Ukraine, the brutal street fighting of Stalingrad during 1942. He was present at the Battle of Kursk and as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where hi worst fears for his family were confirmed. A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities which was used in evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,
Keywords: war ww2 army russia red army ukraine stalingrad kursk berdichev war crimes holocaust treblinka
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Title: A WRITER AT WAR - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945.
Description: Pimlico, London,ND (circa 2012), reprint, paperback, xxi, 378 pp. half tone photo frontis, half tone photo ills. in text, coloured map inside front cover, phto pictorial wrappers, the author was deemed unfit for military service against the germans when they invaded Russia in 1941 and he became a reporter for the Red Army Newspaper, Red Star, and witnessed many of the major events of that war, the desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and the fighting in the Ukraine, the brutal street fighting of Stalingrad during 1942. He was present at the Battle of Kursk and as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where hi worst fears for his family were confirmed. A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities which was used in evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,
Keywords: war ww2 army russia red army ukraine stalingrad kursk berdichev war crimes holocaust treblinka
Price: GBP 8.00 = appr. US$ 11.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 45773
- Book number: 45773
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