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Stalin Organ

Stalin Organ

by Michael Hofmann (Author), Gert Ledig (Author), Michael Hofmann (Author), Gert Ledig (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $22.19
Synopsis

The Stalin Organ - a slang military term for a multiple rocket launcher - is the first of Gert Ledig's triad of books on World War II, written in swift succession in the 1950s. Switching between the German and Russian lines, Ledig brings us the experience of war from both sides of the conflict, as the two armies tensely hold out for the other side to give. He describes in horrifying detail the graphic and resourceful violence that maims and kills the barely individuated soldiers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 24 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 1862076529
ISBN 13: 9781862076525

Author Bio
Gert Ledig (1921-1999) was born in Leipzig, and grew up in Vienna. At the age of 18 he volunteered for the army, and was wounded at the battle of Leningrad in 1942. He later reworked his experiences in The Stalin Organ (1955). Sent back home, he trained as a ship building engineer, and was caught in several air raids - an experience that never left him, and which led to the writing of Payback (1956). Its reissue in 1999 in Germany led to the author's much publicised rediscovery there.