Stalingrado Info

Many descriptions of the psychological toll on soldiers and civilians are captured in Vasily Grossman’s epic novels .

"Stay low," Nikolai grunted, his voice a gravelly rasp. He had been in the city since August. He had seen the Volga turn red under the hulls of sinking barges. "They don't want the city anymore. They just want to survive the night. Same as us." Stalingrado

Nikolai crouched in the hollow of a basement, the air tasting of brick dust and frozen iron. Beside him, Sasha—barely eighteen and clutching a Mosin-Nagant with white-knuckled fingers—stared out through a crack in the masonry. "They’re moving," Sasha whispered. Many descriptions of the psychological toll on soldiers