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Dan D · 11-19-14, 12:17 PM

Brilliant book this, it is a novel though:

"The Stalin Organ" by Gert Ledig, more here: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Stalin_Organ.html ,

"1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through 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 Germans as the Stalin Organ and to the Russians as Katyusha—rains death upon the struggling troops.

Comparable to such masterpieces of war literature as Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stalin Front is a harrowing, almost photographic, description of violence and devastation, one that brings home the unforgiving reality of total war."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...#other_reviews

Sample excerpt, the book starts with this:

"The Lance-Corporal couldn't turn in his grave, because he didn't have one. Some three versts from Podrova, forty versts south of Leningrad, he had been caught in a salvo of rockets, been thrown up in the air, and with severed hands and head dangling, been impaled on the skeletal branches of what once had been a tree.

The NCO, who was writhing on the ground with a piece of shrapnel in his belly, had no idea what was keeping his machine-gunner. It didn't occur to him to look up. He had his hands full with himself."

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I agree that it is comparable to e.g. "All Quiet on the Western Front" as IMO it leaves a similar strong Impression on the Reader. Story is told from the perspective of both Germans and "Russians" (Soviet) alike. The author served in the Battle of Leningrad in 1942. This novel essentially reflects his experiences during that battle.

11-19-14, 12:17 PM	#14
Dan D Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: 9th Flotilla Posts: 839 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Brilliant book this, it is a novel though: "The Stalin Organ" by Gert Ledig, more here: http://dannyreviews.com/h/Stalin_Organ.html , "1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through 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 Germans as the Stalin Organ and to the Russians as Katyusha—rains death upon the struggling troops. Comparable to such masterpieces of war literature as Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, The Stalin Front is a harrowing, almost photographic, description of violence and devastation, one that brings home the unforgiving reality of total war." http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...#other_reviews Sample excerpt, the book starts with this: "The Lance-Corporal couldn't turn in his grave, because he didn't have one. Some three versts from Podrova, forty versts south of Leningrad, he had been caught in a salvo of rockets, been thrown up in the air, and with severed hands and head dangling, been impaled on the skeletal branches of what once had been a tree. The NCO, who was writhing on the ground with a piece of shrapnel in his belly, had no idea what was keeping his machine-gunner. It didn't occur to him to look up. He had his hands full with himself." **** I agree that it is comparable to e.g. "All Quiet on the Western Front" as IMO it leaves a similar strong Impression on the Reader. Story is told from the perspective of both Germans and "Russians" (Soviet) alike. The author served in the Battle of Leningrad in 1942. This novel essentially reflects his experiences during that battle. __________________