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The Stalin Front : A Novel of World War II (New York Review Books Classics)
The Stalin Front A Novel of World War II - New York Review Books Classics Author:Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann Its 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses in claustrophobic spaces. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break though enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headq... more »uarters to the front, scrambles desperately from shelter to shelter as he tries to avoid getting caught in the action. Through it all, Russian artillery the crude but devastatingly effective multiple rocket launcher known to the Russians as Katyusha rains death upon the struggling troops. The Stalin Front is a classic war novel that stands with Ernst Jungers Storm of Steel and Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front as a reckoning not just with the horrors of war, but as a rendering of combat that gets as close to how it actually feels as perhaps any book can.« less