This collection brings together tales of love, tragedy, survival, and the life-altering effects
of war both on and off the battlefield.
Life and Fate
By Vasily Grossman
Translated and with an introduction by Robert Chandler
An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing
account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single
middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune
from Germany to Siberia.
Kaputt
By Curzio Malaparte
Afterword by Dan Hofstadter
Translated by Cesare Foligno
“Part autobiography and part fiction, it captures seemingly
unfathomable history. No work has ever revealed more about
the murderous blend of zeal and indifference that is fanaticism.”
—Wall Street Journal
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
By Olivia Manning
Introduction by Rachel Cusk
Manning’s focus is not the battlefield, but the café and
kitchen, the bedroom and street, the fabric of the everyday
world that has been irrevocably altered by war, yet remains
unchanged.
