Babi-Yar
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Creased spine. Stickers/Labels: None.
Babi-Yar is a harrowing and essential work of documentary literature that chronicles one of the most devastating Nazi massacres of World War II — the systematic murder of over 100,000 people, predominantly Jewish civilians, at the Babi Yar ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1941. Written by A. Anatoli (the pen name of Soviet author Anatoly Kuznetsov), the book draws on the author's own childhood memories of living through the German occupation of Kyiv, supplemented by survivor testimonies and meticulous historical research. Uncompromising in its honesty, it presents the brutal reality of Nazi atrocity with an unflinching eye, bearing witness to genocide at its most intimate and human scale. Originally censored and heavily altered by Soviet authorities upon its first publication in 1966, the full, uncensored text was later released after Kuznetsov defected to the West — making this edition a document of both historical and literary significance. As Anthony Burgess declared, it is one of the most frightful exposures yet of human iniquity, and it remains a vital testament to the victims of Babi Yar.
Author: A. Anatoli
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Sphere
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Creased spine. Stickers/Labels: None.
Babi-Yar is a harrowing and essential work of documentary literature that chronicles one of the most devastating Nazi massacres of World War II — the systematic murder of over 100,000 people, predominantly Jewish civilians, at the Babi Yar ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1941. Written by A. Anatoli (the pen name of Soviet author Anatoly Kuznetsov), the book draws on the author's own childhood memories of living through the German occupation of Kyiv, supplemented by survivor testimonies and meticulous historical research. Uncompromising in its honesty, it presents the brutal reality of Nazi atrocity with an unflinching eye, bearing witness to genocide at its most intimate and human scale. Originally censored and heavily altered by Soviet authorities upon its first publication in 1966, the full, uncensored text was later released after Kuznetsov defected to the West — making this edition a document of both historical and literary significance. As Anthony Burgess declared, it is one of the most frightful exposures yet of human iniquity, and it remains a vital testament to the victims of Babi Yar.