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Record details
- ISBN: 9781433287022 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433287021 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 31:47:07. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ralph Cosham. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 456834 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional: a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. Through these and other lives, Vollmann offers a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.
