The Stalin Front
Subtitle: A Novel of World War II (New York Review Books Classics)
Contributors: Michael Hofmann (Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: August 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781590171646
Subjects: War & Military; Fiction / War; Fiction - Men's  Adventure; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: The Lance-Corporal couldn't turn in his grave, because he didn't have one.
Description: "It's 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."--Jacket.