When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the "Red Star," the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. "A Writer at War" depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more. Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions --at once unflinching and sensitive -- we have ever had of what Grossman called "the ruthless truth of war."

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Introduction		vii
Translators` Note		xix
Glossary		xx
PART ONE: The Shock of Invasion 1941
Baptism of Fire August 1941		3	(15)
The Terrible Retreat August to September 1941		18	(9)
On the Bryansk Front September 1941		27	(4)
With the 50th Army September 1941		31	(5)
Back into the Ukraine September 1941		36	(9)
The German Capture of Orel October 1941		45	(7)
The Withdrawal before Moscow October 1941		52	(15)
PART TWO: The Year of Stalingrad 1942
In the South January 1942		67	(12)
The Air War in the South January 1942		79	(6)
On the Donets with the Black Division January and February 1942		85	(10)
With the Khasin Tank Brigade February 1942		95	(15)
`The Ruthless Truth of War` March to July 1942		110	(6)
The Road to Stalingrad August 1942		116	(16)
The September Battles		132	(22)
The Stalingrad Academy Autumn 1942		154	(16)
The October Battles		170	(20)
The Tide Turned November 1942		190	(13)
PART THREE: Recovering the Occupied Territories 1943
After the Battle January 1943		203	(10)
Winning Back the Motherland The Early Spring of 1943		213	(12)
The Battle of Kursk July 1943		225	(22)
PART FOUR: From the Dnepr to the Vistula 1944
The Killing Ground of Berdichev January 1944		247	(15)
Across the Ukraine to Odessa March & April 1944		262	(8)
Operation Bagration June & July 1944		270	(10)
Treblinka July 1944		280	(29)
PART FIVE: Amid the Ruins of the Nazi World 1945
Warsaw and Lodz January 1945		309	(13)
Into the Lair of the Fascist Beast January 1945 Poznan and Schwerin		322	(9)
The Battle for Berlin April and May 1945		331	(13)
Afterword
The Lies of Victory		344	(7)
Acknowledgements		351	(1)
Bibliography		352	(2)
Source Notes		354	(11)
Index		365

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The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

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