A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Vasily Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers and civilians alike.
Russian literature at its most magnificent and intense. This novel rolls like the steppe unforgivably barren and exhausting, on and on until the reader is left exhausted by the enormity of the story and its telling.
Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp.