A gargantuan novel based largely on the seige of Stalingrad. Mostly from the Russian point of view, but also some sections from the German point of view.
The real subject of the book is a critique of Russia under Stalin. Never published in Russia, and when you read it, you understand why. Grossman was ahead of everyone else I think, in his insight into the Russian communist project and how it went so totally off the rails.
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