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One of his other books "A Writer at War : a Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945" is an excellent, if censored description of WW2 from an eyewitness o
by RachelF 8y ago
One of his other books "A Writer at War : a Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945" is an excellent, if censored description of WW2 from an eyewitness on the Soviet side.
Its description of the liberation of Treblinka [0] was used at the Nuremberg Trials.
[0] https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-human-behavior/hell-of-treblinka-vasily-grossman https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-human-behavior/hell-...
- JamesCoyne 8y agoI'll toss in my two cents in support of this recommendation. It provides a great narrative history of the Eastern Front. Somehow Grossman is on the periphery of every major event of the Eastern Front.