Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war\"s first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success....

Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologi...

In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home....

Dans ce roman-fresque, composé dans les années 1950, à la façon de Guerre et paix, Vassili Grossman (1905-1964) fait revivre l\"URSS en guerre à travers le destin d\"une famille, dont les membres......

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman\"s characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and......

Presentamos la novela que Vasili Grossman completo cuando ya sabia que nunca veria publicada su obra maes­tra, Vida y destino. Al igual que esta, \"Todo fluye\" es una obra conmovedora y valiente sobre un momento despiadado, un retrato de la condicion humana....

Few writers had to confront so many of the last century\"s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine......

Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Linda Grant chose Life and Fate....

\"Everything Flows\" is the last novel by Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, \"Life and Fate.\"...

En février 1943, le nom de \\\"Stalingrad\\\" est sur toutes les lèvres et va devenir le symbole de la défaite allemande. Correspondant de L’Etoile rouge, Vassili Grossman assiste aux combats, dont il rend compte dans......

Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin\"s death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world....