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I read Stalingrad first before this. I was hardly able to put that down. Now I am 245 pages in and I forgot to even journal that I had started it.

War is not conducted on a map with a view from 20,000 feet. It is conducted in the lives of everyone who is affected by it. This is the gift given to us by Grossman: to smell the sweat of fear accumulated over months…