The People Immortal av Vasily Grossman

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<p><b>One of Grossman''s three great war novels - alongside <i>Life and Fate</i> and <i>Stalingrad.</i><br><br>"A significant, valuable addition to Grossman''s small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD<br><br><i>"</i>A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight" JONATHAN DIMBLEBY<br><br>"There are always good reasons for reading Grossman, but few times are as resonant as our own" <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>"At the heart of his writing lies a tireless humanity and empathy" <i>Telegraph</i><br><br>"Grossman combines a journalist''s eye with a novelist''s empathy" <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br>Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war''s first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimate