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    In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand. 

    The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor’s research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. 

    In Stalingrad, published here for the first time in English translation, and in its celebrated sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman writes with extraordinary power and deep compassion about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism, without, however, losing sight of the little things that are the daily currency of human existence or of humanity’s inextinguishable, saving attachment to nature and life. Grossman’s two-volume masterpiece can now be seen as one of the supreme accomplishments of twentieth-century literature, tender and fearless, intimate and epic.

    Scope and Contents

    The records of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1873-1995 (bulk 1945-1980), document the daily activities of an established and prestigious publishing firm. Beyond recording the history of the firm, its founders, editors, and other staff, the collection serves to articulate the publishing process (especially in terms of editorial and promotional practices at Knopf), to offer detailed information on the numerous prominent authors and books published by the firm, and to illuminate the interactions between publishers, authors, editors, literary agents, manuscript readers, translators, and book designers, all engaged in the endeavor to produce quality books. The pervasive influence and hallmarks of the firm's founders Alfred A. and Blanche Wolf Knopf are evident throughout the archive: unwavering commitment to worthy books; introduction of international writers to the American public; insistence on quality book design and manufacture; and the pursuit of books on topics of personal interest to the Knopfs and their editors. The collection also provides a glimpse of the personal lives of the Knopfs, which were closely intertwined with their business concerns.The collection's date span is strongest for the post-World War II period to the 1970s, due to an office move in 1945 that precipitated the destruction of many of the firm's older files. However, some of the more important author files from Knopf's "golden age" of publishing in the 1920s and 1930s were saved for their literary significance. Other early records document promotional activities, and a number of Alfred Knopf's personal files contain earlier date ranges. Only a very few items, generally consisting of individual family documents and single pieces of correspondence, date from prior to the founding of the firm in 1915.The collection is arranged in nine series: I. General Correspondence, 1922-1971 (500 boxes); II. Alfred A. Knopf Personal, 1874-1984 (184 boxes); III. Blanche W. Knopf, 1

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    Rapoport, David. "NOTES". Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 307-396. https://doi.org/10.7312/rapo13302-008

    Rapoport, D. (2022). NOTES. In Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present (pp. 307-396). New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/rapo13302-008

    Rapoport, D. 2022. NOTES. Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, pp. 307-396. https://doi.org/10.7312/rapo13302-008

    Rapoport, David. "NOTES" In Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present, 307-396. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7312/rapo13302-008

    Rapoport D. NOTES. In: Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press; 2022. p.307-396. https://doi.org/10.7312/rapo13302-008

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