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p. 187 ‘
In the light of rockets
. . .’, ‘The Stalingrad Battle’, RGALI 1710/1/102

p. 188 ‘
Once, in mid-October, he told officers
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1979, pp. 313–28

Chapter 17: The Tide Turned

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/50 with the following exceptions:

p. 190 ‘
I work a lot, the work is stressful
. . .’, 13 November 1942, EVK-GP

p. 192 ‘
watched the beginning of
. . .’, 1 December 1942, Ortenberg, 1982, p. 429

p. 193 ‘
We wandered into an empty house
. . .’, interview with Ekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman, 24 December 2004

p. 193 ‘
Old women’s kerchiefs and earrings
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 193 ‘
A babushka told us how
. . .’ RGALI 1710/3/50

p. 194 ‘
Ice is moving down the Volga
. . .’ ‘On the Roads of the Advance’, RGALI 618/2/107

p. 197 ‘
When one enters a bunker
. . .’, ‘Military Council’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 29 December 1942, RGALI 618/2/107

p. 198 ‘
I work a lot
. . .’, Guber, 1990

p. 199 ‘
All those who, for a hundred days
. . .,’ ‘The New Day’, RGALI 618/2/107

p. 199 ‘
We are walking on a waste land
. . .’, ‘Stalingrad Army’, RGALI 618/2/107

p. 200 ‘
I think I will be in Moscow in January
. . .’, 11 December 1942, EVK-GP

p. 200 ‘
Red Army soldiers wound the gramophone up
. . .’, RGALI 618/2/107

Chapter 18: After the Battle

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/50 with the following exceptions:

p. 203 ‘
My dearest Lyusenka, I’ve just come back
. . .’, Guber, 1990

p. 204 ‘
There is no one to cry for him
. . .’, 31 December 1942, EVK-GP

p. 204 ‘
The winter sun is shining over mass graves
. . .’, ‘Today in Stalingrad’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 1 January 1943

p. 205 ‘
Why did General Ortenberg order Grossman
. . .’, Ehrenburg, 1990, p. 350

p. 205 ‘
Well, my [dear Father]
. . .’, 2 January 1943, EVK-GP

p. 209 ‘
The old teacher
. . .’, RGALI 618/2/107

p. 211 ‘
I am waiting for the plane
. . .’, Grossman to Olga Mikhailovna, 17 February 1943, Guber, 1990

p. 211 ‘
I was very disturbed and offended
. . .’, Guber, 1990

p. 211 ‘
People say that some are born
. . .’, Ehrenburg, 1990, p. 350

p. 212 ‘
we received a note
. . .’, 25 May 1943, Ortenberg, 1991, p. 246

Chapter 19: Winning Back the Motherland

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/51 with the following exceptions:

p. 213 ‘
Months of war passed one another
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1982, p. 459

p. 219 ‘
absolutely incorrect attitude
. . .’, TsAMO 48/486/25

pp. 219–20 ‘
Soviet brotherhood
’ and ‘
To indoctrinate soldiers and officers
. . .’, TsAMO 48/486/24

p. 224 ‘
They keep promising to give me leave
. . .’, 20 March 1943, EVK-GP

p. 224 ‘
Just as I thought, my trip was useless
. . .’, 4 April 1943, EVKGP

Chapter 20: The Battle of Kursk

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/51 with the following exceptions:

p. 225 ‘
I’ve arrived at the 62nd Stalingrad Army
. . .’, RGALI 1710/3/50

p. 226 ‘
Rodimtsev
’s division could have fought better . . .’, RGALI 1710/3/50

pp. 231–2 ‘
The brigade had to confront
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1991, pp. 355–6

p. 234 ‘
This battle lasted three days and three nights
. . .’, typescript for editorial board of the journal
Oktyabr
, RGALI 619/1/953

p. 234 ‘
Grossman remained true
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1991, pp. 355–6

p. 235 ‘
There wasn’t anyone in the whole world
. . .’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, July 1943, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 238 ‘
From the point of view of artillery
. . .’, RGALI 1710/3/50

p. 239 ‘
I must say that I had never forgotten
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1991, pp. 379–80

p. 240 ‘
We reached Orel on the afternoon
. . .’, ‘Return’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, August 1943, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 242 ‘
Dear Papa, I’ve been driving
. . .’, 28 June 1943, EVK-GP

p. 243 ‘
With your name
. . .’, quoted Rubenstein, p. 198

p. 243 ‘
You are fighting
. . .’, quoted Rubenstein, p. 205

p. 243 ‘
The soldiers want to hear
. . .’, quoted Rubenstein, p. 207

p. 243 ‘
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman came to Moscow
. . .’, Ehrenburg, 1990, p. 347

p. 243 On the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, see Rubenstein pp. 214–16, and Rubenstein and Naumov

Chapter 21: The Killing Ground of Berdichev

All entries are from RGALI 619/1/953 with the following exceptions:

p. 247 ‘
A report arrived that a girl
. . .’, ‘In the Advance’, 15 October 1943, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 251 ‘
There are no Jews in the Ukraine
. . .’, quoted in Garrard and Garrard, p. 170

p. 252 ‘
There’s no one left in Kazary
. . .’, ‘Murder of the People’, September 1943, typescript, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 254 ‘
Dearest Lyusenka, I reached my destination today
. . .’, Guber, 1990

p. 255 ‘
I am going to Berdichev today
. . .’, n.d., EVK-GP

p. 255 ‘
About 30,000 Jews were killed in Berdichev
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/104

p. 256 ‘
They called me Mitya Ostapchuk
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/123

p. 256 ‘
The seizure of Berdichev by the Germans
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/123

p. 260 ‘
My darling, twenty years
. . .’, Guber, 1990

Chapter 22: Across the Ukraine to Odessa

All entries are from RGALI 1710/1/100 with the following exceptions:

p. 263 ‘
Finally, the sun is getting hotter and hotter
. . .’, ‘Thoughts about the Advance’, RGALI 1710/1/101

p. 269 ‘
a short, calm and good-natured
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1979, pp. 313–28

Chapter 23: Operation Bagration

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/50 with the following exceptions:

p. 272 ‘
Sometimes you are so shaken by what you
’ve seen . . .’, Grossman, 1989

p. 274 ‘
Leutnant-General [
sic
] Lützov does not praise
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/100

p. 275 ‘
A German map had been captured
. . .’, RGALI 1710/1/100

p. 276 ‘
Italians executed by Vlasov men
. . .’, RGALI 1710/3/47

p. 276 ‘
A partisan, a small man
. . .’, RGALI 1710/3/47

p. 277 ‘
Signaller Skvortsov is small
. . .’, RGALI 1710/3/47

p. 277 Training before an offensive.’, RGALI 1710/3/47

p. 279 ‘
From deciduous forests, from marshes
. . .’, ‘In the Towns and Villages of Poland’, RGALI 1710/3/21

Chapter 24: Treblinka

All entries are from RGALI 1710/1/123 with the following exceptions:

p. 280 ‘
The road to Lublin
. . .’, Troyanovsky, p. 182

p. 280 ‘
What about Lublin?
. . .’, Troyanovsky, p. 183

p. 306 On Grossman’s nervous exhaustion, see Rubenstein p. 425, n. 64, and Jean Cathala,
Sans Fleur ni Fusil
(Paris, 1981)

Chapter 25: Warsaw and
ód

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/51 with the following exceptions:

p. 309 ‘
An old man in Kaluga, reasonable and prone
. . .’, ‘The Road to Berlin’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 9 February 1945, RGALI 1710/3/21

p. 312 ‘
It’s the first time in my life
. . .’, Ortenberg, 1991, p. 359

p. 312 ‘
Along the crumpled and explosion-twisted
. . .’, ‘The Road to Berlin’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 9 February 1945, RGALI 1710/3/21

p. 313 ‘
When we arrived, liberated Warsaw
. . .’, ‘The Road to Berlin’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 9 February 1945, RGALI 1710/3/21

p. 314 ‘
We have visited the “bunker”
. . .’, ‘The Road to Berlin’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 9 February 1945, RGALI 1710/3/21

Chapter 26: Into the Lair of the Fascist Beast

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/51 with the following exceptions:

p. 326 ‘
changed for the worse
. . .’, interview with Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, 24 December 2004.

p. 330 ‘
We reached the Oder on a sunny morning
. . .’ ‘The Road to Berlin’,
Krasnaya Zvezda
, 28 February 1945, RGALI 1710/3/21

Chapter 27: The Battle for Berlin

All entries are from RGALI 1710/3/51 with the following exceptions:

p. 331 ‘
On 14 April, correspondents
. . .’, Troyanovsky, ‘While Taking Berlin’,
Zhurnalisty na voine
, p. 180

p. 332 ‘
A village that had been burned by the Germans
. . .’, ‘On the Borderline between War and Peace’, RGALI 618/11/52

p. 341 ‘
It was in Germany, particularly here in Berlin
. . .’, ‘On the Borderline between War and Peace’, RGALI 618/11/52

Afterword: The Lies of Victory

p. 346 ‘
grave political errors
’, Rubenstein, p. 217

p. 347 ‘
how much I hate our enemies
’, Rubenstein and Naumov, pp. xii–xiii

p. 348 ‘
A large empty room
. . .’,
Songs from the War
, memoir by Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

p. 349 ‘
Grossman replied that this
. . .’, interview with Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, 24 December 2004

p. 349 ‘
Well, it’s clear to me
. . .’, interview with Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, 24 December 2004

 

Index

Abashidze (battalion commander)
(i)

Abganerovo
(i)

aircraft, Soviet
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
n
;
see also
pilots, Soviet

Akselrod, Sholom
(i)

Alborov (soldier)
(i)

Albrecht, Karl:
Der verratene Sozialismus
(i)
and n

alcohol, consumption of (in Red Army)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Almaz, Nadezhda
(i)
,
(ii)

Alter, Viktor
(i)

Americans
see
United States of America

Andreevna, Sofya
(i)

Andryushenko, Vanya
(i)

Anokhin (soldier)
(i)

Antonescu, Marshal Ion
(i)
n
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Antonov, General Aleksei I.
(i)
,
(ii)

Arkanova, Tonya
(i)

Armia Krajowa
(i)

armies
see
German Army; Red Army

Associated Press
(i)

Avakov, Commander
(i)

Babadzhanyan, General Arno: presumed dead by Grossman
(i)
,
(ii)
; meets Grossman
(iii)
,
(iv)
; and Katukov
(v)
; commands XI Guards Tank Corps
(vi)
; crushes Hungarian uprising (1956)
(vii)

Babi Yar, massacre of
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Baklanov, General
(i)
,
(ii)

Baklan, Captain
(i)

Balashov (pilot)
(i)

Baraban, Doctor
(i)

Baranov (pilot)
(i)

Barkovksy (soldier)
(i)

Baru (journalist)
(i)

Batov, General Pavel
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Batrakov, Liaison Officer
(i)
,
(ii)

Baturin
(i)

Batyuk, General Nikolai
(i)
,
(ii)
,
and n
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

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