| ISBN |
9780099561361 |
| Shelf Location |
F/GRO |
| General |
| Author |
Grossman, Vasily author. |
| Title |
Stalingrad. / Vasily Grossman ; translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler ; edited by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan. |
| Publication Details |
London:
2020. Vintage, |
| ©2019. |
| Collation |
xxvii, 962 pages : : maps ; ; 24 cm. ; |
| Series |
Vintage classics |
| General Note |
Originally published in serial format by Novy Mir in 1952, and as a book by Voenizdat in 1954. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Abstract/Summary |
In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand.The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. |
| Subject |
General fiction |
| Soldiers -- Soviet Union -- Fiction |
| Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943 -- Fiction |
| Families -- Soviet Union -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944 -- Fiction. |
| Historical fiction |
| Other Author |
Chandler, Robert, |
| Chandler, Elizabeth, |
| Bit-Yunan, Yury |
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