{"product_id":"from-the-front-line-isbn-9798896230083","title":"From the Front Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eWar reporting from one of Russia's greatest writers, an indispensable record of World War II and the Eastern Front.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune 22, 1941: Launch of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Vasily Grossman soon begins a new career as a war reporter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the next four years, he covers all the major battles of the Eastern Front, from Stalingrad to Berlin, writing brutally vivid reports that were read by millions of soldiers and civilians alike. And, as the war draws to a close, he was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Treblinka death camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrossman had a remarkable memory and the ability to win the trust of men and women from all walks of life: snipers, generals, fighter pilots, peasants, soldiers in a Soviet penal battalion and German prisoners of war. And his ability to write so vividly, and with such understanding, about world-changing events while they were still unfolding may well be unique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together the best of the forty-nine articles he wrote for the \u003ci\u003eRed Star\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper, often in newly unearthed versions that have not been distorted by censors. It demonstrates more clearly than ever what an extraordinary amount Grossman witnessed during only a few years.\u003cb\u003eVasily Semyonovich Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e (1905–1964) worked as a reporter for the army newspaper \u003ci\u003eRed Star\u003c\/i\u003e during WWII, covering nearly all of the most important battles from the defense of Moscow to the fall of Berlin. NYRB Classics publishes Grossman’s \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Armenian Sketchbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe People Immortal. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e’s translations from Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Teffi, Andrey Platonov, and Hamid Ismailov. He has also written a short biography of Pushkin and edited three anthologies of Russian literature for Penguin Classics. His most recent publication is a selection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire and his Russian contemporary Velimir Khlebnikov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Chandler\u003c\/b\u003e is a co-translator, with her husband, of Pushkin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Captain’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e; of Vasily Grossman’s \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Armenian Sketchbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e; and of several works by Andrey Platonov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Volohova\u003c\/b\u003e is a scholar who has contributed to the publication of several previously unknown texts by Grossman and prepared the updated editions of \u003ci\u003eThe People Immortal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDispatches from the Frontline\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the first edition of Grossman’s correspondence.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233181610213,"sku":"NP9798896230083","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230083.jpg?v=1767727749","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/from-the-front-line-isbn-9798896230083","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}