![]() ![]() Grossman’s novel focuses primarily on Stalingrad and the weeks between the first German attacks on the city in August 1942, and the surrender, on 31st January 1943, of General Paulus, Generalfeldmarschall of Nazi Germany’s Sixth Army. Re-reading ‘Life and Fate’ has endowed me with a fresh perspective on the novel, not so much because it is a second reading, but because in the intervening years I have read so much more of the Russian and Soviet background to the 1942-43 Battle for Stalingrad the Holocaust the 1936-38 Great Terror the artificial famine of the early 1930’s and a great deal more that is relevant to the diorama that is ‘Life and Fate’. I have just re-read it in preparation for the newly-published ‘Stalingrad’, Robert Chandler’s English translation of the ‘prequel’ to ‘Life and Fate’. ![]() ![]() I first read ‘Life and Fate’ almost 20 years ago. ![]()
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