Stalingrad
by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Yury Bit-Yunan · first published 2023
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I've almost finished reading Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman after seeing it mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568340 It's a stunning book - has had me in tears more than once.
on “Ask HN: Non-sci-fi fiction recommendations?” ↗…contrasting personalities of the two main characters. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate. Like Tolstoy's War and Peace, but set in Russia during WWII. Explores the dark heart of the 20th century (the Battle of Stalingrad, concentration camps, the gulag) through the eyes of a wide cast of characters from different walks of life. Grossman wrote about Stalingrad from firsthand experience as a war journalist, and is able…
on “Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?” ↗I also recommend Vasily Grossman's books. Life and Fate, Stalingrad, Everything Flows, etc. Life and Fate is one of the most powerful books I've read. https://www.nyrb.com/products/life-and-fate?_pos=1&_sid=f10e...
on “David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98” ↗…Philip K. Dick Providence: God's Loving Care for Men and the Need for Confidence in Almighty God by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips Currently reading: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous Financial Shenanigans by Howard M. Schilit Up next: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman These…
on “Ask HN: Which book do you want to read next?” ↗Recently I've been reading Vasily Grossman's A Writer At War, which is a collection of his journals from the Eastern Front, and the depths of Stalin's brutality are staggering. In the Battle of Stalingrad he forbade that any citizens flee the city since he thought it would motivate the troops, and special battalions were set up behind the front line to shoot any who retreated. In the battle itself Soviet…
on “How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine” ↗