{"product_id":"stalingrad","title":"STALINGRAD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee; Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters – lives which express Grossman’s grand themes of the nation and the individual, nature’s beauty and war’s cruelty, love and separation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor months, Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory. The city stands on a cliff-top by the Volga river. The battle for Stalingrad – a maelstrom of violence and firepower – will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. It is tender, epic, and a testament to the power of the human spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43099870298148,"sku":null,"price":6745.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9781846555794.webp?v=1766555364","url":"https:\/\/vanguardbooks.com\/products\/stalingrad","provider":"Vanguard Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}