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  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445893129
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 40 min
  • Narrator: Elliot Levey
  • RRP: $7.99
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Vasily Grossman From The Front Line




Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio programmes, Elliot Levey reads three of Vasily Grossman's front line despatches. The first is a heroic and intimate portrait of a sniper, the second deals with the battle for Stalingrad and the final one details the murder of millions of Jews on Soviet soil: an account that was rejected by the military censor and only rediscovered in the late 1990s. Translators: Jim Riordan & Polly Zavadivker. Producer: Mark Burman.

  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445893129
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 0 hr 40 min
  • Narrator: Elliot Levey
  • RRP: $7.99
Categories:

About the author

Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate, his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964.

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