... Theatre The Battle of Stalingrad The Pit , Barbican , London March Author / director : Rezo Gabriadze Producer : Tbilisi Marionette Theatre Cast : Tamara Amiredjibi , Ia Kirvalidze , Ketevan Kobulia , Vladimir Meltser , Giorgi Osepashvili , Irakli Sharshidze ...

... Writer at War Vasily Grossman Harvill Press, September, £2O, 184343055 X Grossman’s Life and Fate,whose subject was the Battle of Stalingrad, is probably the greatest novel to come out of Russia’s Great Patriotic War and one of its greatest admirers is Antony ...

... during the Second World War, and saw a lot of hideous goings on, both on the eastern front and at the heart of the battle of Stalingrad. His Life and Fate (Harvill) is an enormous book at around 900 pages, the 20th-century War and Peace—big, epic, and ...