The Stalin Front was Ledig's first novel. After being rejected by fifty publishers, it appeared in under the German title Die Stalinorgel (The Stalin Organ), a Wehrmacht slang term for the Soviet multiple rocket launcher that has already killed the Lance Corporal as the story begins. · About the Author. Gert Ledig (–) was born in Leipzig and grew up in Vienna. At the age of eighteen he volunteered for the army and was wounded at the battle of Leningrad in He reworked his experiences during the war in this novel Die Stalinorgel ().Brand: New York Review Books. · The Stalin Front, also published as The Stalin Organ, by Gert Ledig () is a novel about Russo-German fighting during World War II. It was first published in German in , sixteen years after the author volunteered in the army/5.
Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about it. After brief public acclaim for his first novel, Die Stalinorgel ()/The Stalin Organ ¹ he was invited to join Gruppe 47, a post-war writers' circle which included many of his war-generation peers: Gunter Grass, Heinrich Böll, Paul Celan, and many others. "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 s. 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. The Stalin Front, also published as The Stalin Organ, by Gert Ledig () is a novel about Russo-German fighting during World War www.doorway.ru was first published in German in , sixteen years after the author volunteered in the army. The English translation by Michael Hofmann appeared only recently in
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. The Stalin Front, also published as The Stalin Organ, by Gert Ledig () is a novel about Russo-German fighting during World War II. It was first published in German in , sixteen years after the author volunteered in the army. The original German title is "Die Stalinorgel", or, in English, "The Stalin Organ" - which was what German troops called the "Katyusha", a multiple rocket launcher used to horrifying effect by the Soviet Army (including flinging the Lance-Corporal's mangled corpse up into that tree).
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