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Book SynopsisFeaturing lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives reveals, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and utopian beginnings.
Trade Review“This thoroughly-researched volume brings to life an era when journalism – in its particular Russian literary form – really was the first draft of history. Soviet victory at Stalingrad changed the course of the Second World War, and consequently the course of European and world history. Ian Garner’s impressive achievement here is to combine commentary and context with lively translation. It is extremely timely at a moment when journalism – not least in Russia – once again finds itself on the frontline.” James Rodgers, City, University of London, and author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin
“A long-overdue study of what is probably the most important body of war correspondence ever written.” Robert Chandler, translator of Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad and Life and Fate
