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With Paulus at Stalingrad by Wilhelm Adam is not written by any ordinary person. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. Sometimes I remembered but plenty of times I didn’t. It features characters who appear in both. Stalingrad is my most satisfying read of the year. Grossman describes the ensuing German night attack using tanks and waves of men – a bitter hand-to-hand struggle fought with submachine guns and mortars, rifles and spades, across a darkness filled with “screams, groans and wheezes” and “the last bubbles and gurgles of departing life”. In Putin’s Russia, Grossman is largely ignored. Shares that the Hilter’s huge Sixth … It's powerful precisely because of this, too real to be anything but difficult. The book tells us the details about the command structures and strategies that were considered about the pre-invasion Soviet Union via Russia’s humiliation. Tolstoy wrote about the events of 1812 from a distance. Also, that this fight showed people the destruction and devastation that war results in. Stalingrad and Life and Fate are modelled on War and Peace – the only book Grossman said he was able to read at the front. In fact Stalingrad is Life and Fate’s equal. Although I greatly admired “Life and Fate”, I was conscious throughout that I was missing out on the background of the characters. Like Tolstoy, Grossman convincingly portrays the thoughts and feelings of ordinary soldiers in the hours before their deaths. Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? Also, that this fight has earned the title to be the biggest military debacle of all time. He shares a clear experience of his face to face fight with an enemy that is hard to defeat. Stalingrad’s long non-appearance in English is a mystery. The novel was eventually published after his death, to international acclaim. The German siege took under control by the Soviet forces resulting in the capture of the city of Stalingrad. He published a version of Stalingrad in 1952, under the title For a Just Cause. One of the things I most enjoyed, and found unique in my limited reading experience, was how valuable workers were in this world, as opposed, say, to entrepreneurs, and this done almost by way of a gossamer effect. At the beginning of the novel, Pyotr Vavilov – a middle-aged kolkhoz (collective farm) worker – says farewell to his wife and children and leaves his village for the front. Before doing so, I read a biography, “Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century,” and I am pleased that I did, as it gave me more understanding of this, magnificent, sprawling, novel. His descriptions of battle in an industrial age are some of the most vivid ever written – the whoosh of enemy fire, how “each splinter made its own particular sound”.

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