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The Stalin Front

A Novel of World War II (New York Review Books Classics)

By Ledig, Gert & Hofmann, Michael

Publishers Summary:
It’s 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses in claustrophobic spaces. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break though 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 Russians as Katyusha — rains death upon the struggling troops. The Stalin Front is a classic war novel that stands with Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front as a reckoning not just with the horrors of war, but as a rendering of combat that gets as close to how it actually feels as perhaps any book can.

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ISBN

978-1-59017-164-6

Publisher

New York Review Books Classics