{"product_id":"from-the-front-line-stalingrad-treblinka-berlin-1941-45","title":"From the Front Line: Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the Front Line: Stalingrad–Treblinka–Berlin, 1941–45\u003c\/em\u003e gathers Vasily Grossman’s most important wartime journalism, offering an extraordinary firsthand account of the Eastern Front from the German invasion of the Soviet Union through the fall of Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrossman began working as a war correspondent for the Soviet newspaper \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e shortly after Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941. Over the next four years, he reported from some of the most significant and brutal battles of the war, including Stalingrad, the Soviet advances through Ukraine and Poland, and the final battle for Berlin. His reports brought him into contact with soldiers, commanders, pilots, civilians, prisoners, and survivors, allowing him to record both the vast movements of armies and the individual experiences hidden within them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes Grossman’s landmark account of the Treblinka extermination camp, one of the earliest detailed testimonies to reach the public about the Nazi death camps. Alongside this are reports on combat, military life, devastated landscapes, liberation, and the human cost of the Soviet advance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new collection brings together forty-nine articles, including previously unpublished or newly restored versions that had been altered by Soviet censorship. Read alongside Grossman’s novels \u003cem\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, these dispatches reveal the development of a writer whose firsthand experience of war would become central to his understanding of violence, political power, suffering, and individual moral responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasily Grossman (1905–1964) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and war correspondent. He worked for the Red Army newspaper \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e throughout the Second World War, covering nearly all of the major battles on the Eastern Front, from the defense of Moscow to Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin. He was among the first journalists to report on the Treblinka extermination camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrossman later transformed his wartime experiences into some of the most significant Russian literature of the twentieth century, including \u003cem\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Chandler is a translator of Russian literature whose work includes Grossman’s \u003cem\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEverything Flows\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Road\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAn Armenian Sketchbook\u003c\/em\u003e. Elizabeth Chandler has co-translated several of Grossman’s works with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Volohova is an independent scholar who has researched Grossman’s life and work extensively, including previously unstudied material from his family archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Review Books Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJune 16, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e512\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorld War II; Eastern Front; War Reporting; Military History; Soviet Union; Stalingrad; Treblinka; Berlin; Holocaust; Russian Literature; Journalism; Personal Narratives; History; Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9798896230083\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old Post Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45397569470646,"sku":"9798896230083","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/2264\/4150\/files\/9798896230083.jpg?v=1788275956","url":"https:\/\/oldpostbookshop.com\/products\/from-the-front-line-stalingrad-treblinka-berlin-1941-45","provider":"Old Post Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}