Life And Fate Vasily Grossman Everyman&Apos S Library Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays Literary Reference

Based Around The Pivotal Wwii Battle Of Stalingrad (1942-3) Where German Advance Into Russia Was Eventually Halted By Red Army And An Extended Family Shaposhnikovs Their Many Friends Acquaintances Life Fate Recounts Experience Characters Caught Up In Immense Struggle Between Opposing Armies Ideologies Nazism Communism Are Appallingly Similar \ Two Poles One Magnet\ As A Camp Commander Tells Shocked Old Bolshevik Prisoner At Height Russian Soldiers Citizens Alike Last Able To Speak Out They Choose Without Reprisal - Unexpected Short-Lived Moment Freedom Grossman Himself On Front Line War Correspondent Hence His Gripping Scenes Though These More Than Matched Drama Individual Conscience Struggling Against Massive Pressure Submit State He Knew All About This From Too Central Character Viktor Shtrum Succumbs But Each Delay Act Resistance Is Moral Victory Writes Unsparingly Terror Totalitarianism Also Acts Senseless Kindness\ That Redeem Humanity Message Remains Hope Dedicates Book Labour Ten Years Which Did Not Live See Published Mother Who Like Shtrum\ S Killed Holocaust Berdichev Ukraine September 1941 Σελίδες: 936 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm