The Stalin Front

It's 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses in claustrophobic spaces. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break though enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a [...]
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It's 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses in claustrophobic spaces. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break though enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles desperately from shelter to shelter as he tries to avoid getting caught in the action. Through it all, Russian artillery -- the crude but devastatingly effective multiple rocket launcher known to the Russians as Katyusha -- rains death upon the struggling troops.
"The Stalin Front" is a classic war novel that stands with Ernst Junger's "Storm of Steel" and Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" as a reckoning not just with the horrors of war, but as a rendering of combat that gets as close to how it actually feels as perhaps any book can.