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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...
Moscow, by Theodor Plievier. A stunning documentary novel about the German drive on Moscow and the confusion and dismay of the Russian defenders through the long summer of 1941 (TIME March...
Moscow, by Theodor Plievier. A stunning documentary novel about the German drive on Moscow and the confusion and dismay of the Russian defenders through the long summer of 1941 (TiME, March...
Before German Novelist Theodor Plievier brings Moscow to a close, the "wonder" touch has passed from Hitler to Stalin, and the scope and horror of modern war has been described with a combination of pitiless detail and powerful sweep by the best novelist who has written on World War II. Plievier richly earned that rating with Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. i, 1948), and while Moscow is not so dramatic as his earlier story, it is the kind of book that leaves a residue of flaming images in a reader's mind. The second volume of a trilogy...
...description of war, from a private's fatigue to a general's annoyance, is one of Author Plievier's finest talents. Another is his easy way with mass confusion, civilian and military, his ability to control vast combat areas without losing sight of the basic factors, from supply to morale. He shifts from the German side to the Russian as if he had seen the entire battle from a slow, low-flying plane, then describes the movements and feelings of individual soldiers as if he himself had jumped off for both sides. In Moscow, the Russian confusion...