Days and Nights
A Fiction, Cultural, War book. A book written from the POV of a Soviet soldier in the battle of Stalingrad....
The setting of Days and Nights is the massive and terrible struggle for Stalingrad, where Russia turned the Nazi tide.The story is a simple one. It is the tale of seventy days and nights in which a young Red Army officer seized and held three apartment houses in Stalingrad. It defines, as well, the subtle ways in which patriotism and a desire for happiness have taken first importance in the minds and hearts of many Russian men and women. It has been called by critics the best novel of the Red Army and its long war against the Germans. Days and Nights is the first novel by Russia's most successful young reporter and playwright. It is an attempt to describe, without propaganda stereotypes, the new sense of themselves Russians have acquired during the war. So far as...
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This is a story of life in the besieged city of Stalingrad during WWII, specifically of Saburov and his battalion. It is also a story about beauty, of how it can still be present even in the most desperate situations. The title is in every page, Simonov clearly tells us what time of day, or night, it is, brilliantly mirroring the happiness... A book written from the POV of a Soviet soldier in the battle of Stalingrad. Really quick read and very engrossing. Days and Nights is a day by day recitation of the horrors of war. Contains a lot of small details that illustrate the lives of those soldiers. A novel about the battle of Stalingrad (published in 1945) written by one of the top Soviet war correspondents (a rival of Vasily Grossman). Good, straight-forward war story; key figures are a battalion commander, an old soldier, and a very young nurse.
