The People Immortal (New York Review Books Classics)

all ok

Robert and Elizabeth Chandler along with Yulia Volohova do a great service to literature and history by reconstructing this work.the main text is only 246 pages long. it is a straight forward moral boosting off to war story (well in war)while the characters are likable the plot is just to basic.this is nothing (NOTHING) like Grossman's epic must read Stalingrad / Life and Fate. see other reviews.there is about 80 pages of context in the afterward that help. the end notes are a lot of this was deleted and restored it becomes redundantoddly enough I still recommend it for history fanatics.

Enjoyed descriptive language and detailed perspectives

Grossman details a part of the war’s first year in the Ukraine, we see German atrocities, killing of old women, children, communists and anyone with a moderate education. He also details some Ukrainian’s who welcomed the Germans ( to their regret, at this point the Germans did not welcome collaborators).The reader can see how Grossman skirted the fine line of censorship with much of this work being only fully translated in the 2000s.All in all this is a superior work, shorter than life and fate and Stalingrad but nonetheless a worthy read. I highly recommend this work.

Grossman’s book is not a ‘product.’ He’s the Tolstoy of WW 2.