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BERLIN, by Theodor Plievier. The end of Hitler, Berlin and Germany, seen in a flaming novel that has the hallucinatory quality of a firelit death dance. The last book of a trilogy (Stalingrad and Moscow were the other two) that, collectively, tops the fiction of World...
...novelists are getting their second wind. In two months, half a dozen or so tales of combat action have seen print. The latest, a German entry titled The Cross of Iron, is the most savagely powerful portraiture of men at war on the eastern front since Theodor Plievier's Stalingrad. Possibly because they belonged to the winning side, U.S. writers tend to see war as a personality-developing experience in which a man can forge his own identity. As a loser, the German writer must salvage for his hero both identity and meaning from a lost cause pursued beyond...
Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria...
MOSCOW, by Theodor Plievier, was certainly the most memorable book of the year about World War II, a flaming near-documentary about German victory and defeat in Russia...
Moscow, by Theodor Plievier. A stunning documentary novel about the German drive on Moscow and the confusion and dismay of the Russian defenders (TIME, March...