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

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.

Format:

Book

Physical Desc.:

xiii, 376 p. ; 24 cm.