The Stalin Front : A Novel of World War II
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781590171646
- ISBN-10: 1590171640
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Publish Date: August 2005
- Dimensions: 8.24 x 6.28 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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