Stalin Front A Novel of World War II

Name: Stalin Front A Novel of World War II
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ISBN: 9781590171646

ISBN-10: 1590171640

ISBN-13: 9781590171646

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 8/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth.