Will Stalingrad hold ?
27th August 1942: As the Red Army falls back into Stalingrad the demoralising series of retreats since July leads to an air of defeatism
Soviet journalist Vassily Grossman was an acute observer of life on the Eastern Front, both on the front line and in the rear areas. His notes and articles from this time were to form the basis of his masterpiece novel ‘Life and Fate’, one of the great works of the 20th century.
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