Hardcover First Edition 880pp Collins Harvill, London 1985. First English edition. Not published in Russia until 1989. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.
[Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1985]

[publisher: Collins Harvill, London] Hardcover First Edition London, Collins Harvill, 1985 (first edition in English). Large octavo, 880 pages with a map. Papered boards; small inkstamp on the half-title and title pages; trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy with the unclipped dustwrapper torn along the top third of the length of the hinge of the front flap (which is also a little creased). '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).
[Adelaide, SA, Australia] [Publication Year: 1985]
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