GROSSMAN, Vasily

Life and Fate. A Novel. Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler

London, Collins Harvill, 1985 (first edition in English).

Large octavo, 880 pages with a map.

Papered boards; top edge of the front board slightly bumped (scarcely visible; it is behind the flap of the dustwrapper); small star inkstamp to the bottom edge; an excellent copy with the fine unclipped dustwrapper.

'At the centre of the novel ... stands the battle of Stalingrad ... Grossman delivers a message of terrifying simplicity: that Stalinism and Nazism are one and the same in their falsehood, cruelty and inhumanity ... When it appeared in France and Germany, "Life and Fate" was hailed as the "War and Peace" of the twentieth century' (dustwrapper blurb).