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 Junger's Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stalin Front, which was originally published under the title The Stalin Organ, is a harrowing, almost photographic, description of violence and devastation, one that brings home the unforgiving reality of total war.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
T.H.E. New York Review of Books, INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9781590171646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176721541
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Stalin Front
Author
Gert Ledig
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
203mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
227g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gert Ledig
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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