The End of Alchemygives “a genuine insider’s account” of the crisis
Begley succeeds in bringing this “elusive” figure back to life
Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life
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Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman food The End of Alchemygives “aBetween August 1942 and February 1943, the city of Stalingrad, 1,000km south of Moscow, experienced the fiercest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, said William Boyd in The Sunday Times. As a mighty German army laid siege to the city, a hellish conflagration raged on its streets, resulting in around two million casualties. Vasily Grossman, then a 37 year old war correspondent, spent 100 days in Stalingrad during the siege, and sent back