The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists / Frank Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Frank, 1953- author.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern war studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian fiction.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War in literature.

Novelists, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, Russian.

Veterans--Soviet Union--Biography.

Veterans.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Stalin, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 376 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2011]

Summary:

"An excellent, innovative, and hugely ambitious enterprise that will likely remain the definitive statement on the subject for years to come. . . . Of interest to readers of war literature in any language."-David Gillespie, author of The Twentieth-Century Russian Novel: An Introduction "An important contribution to our understanding of the Russian experience in the Second World War. I wish I had had the opportunity to read it while I was writing Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945."-Sir Max Hastings, author of Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 "A 'must-read' that lifts the veil from the human dimension of combat in the most brutal theater of World War II."-David M. Glantz, author of The Stalingrad Trilogy.

Contents:

The sword and the pen : an overview of war literature

Return from the front : the veterans dissent

Traitors, wolves, and infernal cold : the war stories of Vasil' Bykov

The imperium ripostes : the return of the Vozhd'

The hinge of fate : the Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet-Russian war literature

NKVD reports from Stalingrad, 1942-1943 : blocking detachments, deserters, executions, and morale

The Russian war novel of the 1990s : a final reckoning?

Afterword

Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941

Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942

Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-364) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2862-2

OCLC:

1132690504