When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for theRed Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at Wardepicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more.
Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions --at once unflinching and sensitive -- we have ever had of what Grossman called “the ruthless truth of war.”
Chapter 2. The Terrible Retreat
Chapter 3. On the Bryansk Front
Chapter 5. Back into the Ukraine
Chapter 6. The German Capture of Orel
Chapter 7. The Withdrawal before Moscow
Chapter 9. The Air War in the South
Chapter 10. On the Donets with the Black Division
Chapter 11. With the Khasin Tank Brigade
Chapter 12. ‘The Ruthless Truth of War’
Chapter 13. The Road to Stalingrad
Chapter 14. The September Battles
Chapter 15. The Stalingrad Academy
Chapter 16. The October Battles
Chapter 19. Winning Back the Motherland
Chapter 20. The Battle of Kursk
Chapter 21. The Killing Ground of Berdichev
Chapter 22. Across the Ukraine to Odessa
Chapter 23. Operation Bagration
Chapter 26. Into the Lair of the Fascist Beast
Chapter 27. The Battle for Berlin
AFTERWORD: The Lies of Victory