Life and Fate
$56.64
- Hardcover
936 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
Written in the 1950s, and suppressed in the USSR until 1988 - with the KGB destroying all Russian manuscripts, and even the typewriter ribbon on which it was written - Vasily Grossman’s epic saga, the War and Peace of the Soviet twentieth century, is an astounding work of literature and a devastating historical and political documentary on both Soviet Communism and German Nazism.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was even…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594032 |
| Author: | Vasily Grossman, Polly Jones, Robert Chandler |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 936 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 833g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 43mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964.
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