Published by Vintage Books, 2007
ISBN 10: 0307275337 ISBN 13: 9780307275332
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. First printing. Top edge lightly stained, edge wear. 2007 Trade Paperback. xxi, 380 pp. 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.?.
Published by Knopf Canada, 2006
ISBN 10: 067697810X ISBN 13: 9780676978100
Seller: Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Canadian Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ As New. NO defects. NO notes or ANY markings. Not clipped ($39.95) ; 378 pages.
Published by Knopf Canada, 2006
ISBN 10: 067697810X ISBN 13: 9780676978100
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Tight unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 6.3 X 1.4 X 9.2 inches; 400 pages.
Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 067697810X ISBN 13: 9780676978100
Seller: Irolita Books, Aurora, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. First Edition. Dust jacket is protected in new archival mylar. 378 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
Published by Pantheon, New york, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375424075 ISBN 13: 9780375424076
Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp.378. book.
Published by Pantheon, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 0375424075 ISBN 13: 9780375424076
Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.
Published by NY. 2005. Pantheon / Random House, 2006
ISBN 10: 0375424075 ISBN 13: 9780375424076
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
black & red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. bottom corners bumped. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xxi+378p. b&w photo illustrations. 4 b&w maps. bibliography. source notes. index. biography. autobiography. memoirs. world war ii. nazi germany. soviet union. third reich. ~ Based on the notebooks in which Vasily Grossman gathered the raw material for his newspaper articles, A Writer at War depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front during World War II and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers, and civilians. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Grossman became a special correspondent for The Red Star, the Red Army newspaper. A portly novelist in his mid~thirties with no military experience, he was given a uniform and hastily taught how to use a pistol. Remarkably, he spent three of the next four years at the front, observing with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever recorded. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats and desperate retreats of 1941, the defense of Moscow, and the fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad, where he remained during four months of brutal street fighting. Grossman was present at the battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), and, as the Red Army advanced, he reached Berdichev, where his worst fears for his mother and other relatives were confirmed. A Jew himself, he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report "The Hell of Treblinka" was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. Grossman's masterpiece, Life and Fate, is regarded by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the best~selling historian of Stalingrad and Berlin. Together with Luba Vinogradova, Beevor has woven Grossman's notebooks into a fluid, compelling narrative that gives us one of the best descriptions~at once unflinching and sensitive~of what Grossman called "the ruthless truth of war." Vasily Grossman (1905~1964) came to be regarded as a hero of World War II on the strength of his war reportage. life and Fate, his novel about the siege of Stalingrad, was written in 1960 but was declared a threat to the Soviet government and was confiscated by the KGB. Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another two hundred years. Twenty years later it was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm and published to wide acclaim in the West.
Published by Knopf Canada, 2006
ISBN 10: 067697810X ISBN 13: 9780676978100
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: New.
Published by Edições 70
ISBN 10: 9724413713 ISBN 13: 9789724413716
Seller: Distribras, NESPOULS, France
Brochura. Condition: New. Usually dispatch in 4/5 days.