Page-TurnerThe Unlikely Journalist Who Looked Into the Heart of WarVasily Grossman was an out-of-shape novelist writing for a propaganda machine during the deadliest conflict in history. Somehow, he remade what war reporting could be.By Madeleine WulfahrtJuly 8, 2026Photograph from Pictorial Press Ltd / AlamySave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyVasily Grossman was one of the Soviet Union’s most dazzlingly clear-eyed observers of the Second World War, but it was his vision, ironically, that almost kept him from the front lines. At the time of Hitler’s invasion, Grossman—born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in 1905 in Berdychiv, a predominantly Jewish town...
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