Yury Bit-Yunan

"Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to...

Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp.