The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Ledig, Gert

The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590171646)

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The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Ledig, Gert

The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II

$15.95
The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II by Ledig, Gert

The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters 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 Germans as the Stalin Organ and to the Russians as Katyusha--rains death upon the struggling troops.

Comparable to such masterpieces of war literature as Ernst J nger's Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stalin Front is a harrowing, almost photographic, description of violence and devastation, one that brings home the unforgiving reality of total war.

Author: Gert Ledig
ISBN-10: 1590171640
ISBN-13: 9781590171646
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2005
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.24h x 6.28w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2005 pg. 42
Library Journal 11/15/2005 pg. 63
By Gert Ledig
By Gert Ledig
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Gert Ledig (1921-1999) was born in Leipzig and grew up in Vienna. At the age of eighteen he volunteered for the army and was wounded at the battle of Leningrad in 1942. He reworked his experiences during the war in this novel Die Stalinorgel (1955). Sent back home, he trained as a naval engineer and was caught in several air raids. The experience never left him and led to the writing of Vergeltung (Payback) (1956). The novel's reissue in Germany in 1999 heralded a much publicized rediscovery of the author's work there.

Michael Hofmann is a poet. He is the translator of nine books by Joseph Roth and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for translating The String of Pearls. He is also the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen's two novels The Hothouse and A Sad Affair.

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