Format:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700628629
Series Statement:
Modern War Studies
Content:
"An excellent, innovative, and hugely ambitious enterprise that will likely remain the definitive statement on the subject for years to come. . . . Of interest to readers of war literature in any language."-David Gillespie, author of The Twentieth-Century Russian Novel: An Introduction "An important contribution to our understanding of the Russian experience in the Second World War. I wish I had had the opportunity to read it while I was writing Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945."-Sir Max Hastings, author of Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 "A 'must-read' that lifts the veil from the human dimension of combat in the most brutal theater of World War II."-David M. Glantz, author of The Stalingrad Trilogy.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Sword and the Pen: An Overview of War Literature -- 2. Return from the Front: The Veterans Dissent -- 3. Traitors, Wolves, and Infernal Cold: The War Stories of Vasil' Bykov -- 4. The Imperium Ripostes: The Return of the Vozhd' -- 5. The Hinge of Fate: The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet-Russian War Literature -- 6. NKVD Reports from Stalingrad, 1942-1943: Blocking Detachments, Deserters, Executions, and Morale -- 7. The Russian War Novel of the 1990s: A Final Reckoning? -- Afterword -- Appendix A. Order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army №270, 16th August 1941 -- Appendix B. Order of the People's Commissar for Defense of the USSR, №227, 28th July 1942 -- Appendix C. Statute Concerning the Main Counterintelligence Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense ("SMERSH") and Its Agencies in the Provinces, 21st April 1943 -- Appendix D. Thematic Reference for Works and Characters -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700617845
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780700617845
Language:
English
