TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Stalingrad</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 190 LP - 190 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X709157 VL - 70 IS - 693 AU - Dougal Jeffries Y1 - 2020/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/693/190.abstract N2 - Vasily Grossman Harvill Secker, 2019, HB, 992pp, £10.99, 978-1846555794Vasily Grossman belatedly earned his reputation in the West as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century with the first English publication in 2011 of Life and Fate; it was always intended as the second instalment of his magnum opus dealing with the events leading up to and following the Battle of Stalingrad. That this ‘prequel’ is only now being published in English is the result of the ideological currents that swirled around its gestation in the repressive Soviet regime of the 1950s, examined in fascinating detail in the introduction to this volume.As a Jew, Grossman could very easily have fallen victim to one of Stalin’s … ER -