Road To Volgograd
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A compelling work of travel writing and personal reflection, Road to Volgograd chronicles British novelist Alan Sillitoe's journey through the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, offering an intimate and unflinching portrait of a nation still shaped by the immense trauma of World War II. Sillitoe details the landscapes, people, and cities he encounters with the sharp, working-class sensibility that defined his celebrated fiction, bringing the same raw authenticity to nonfiction that made Saturday Night and Sunday Morning a landmark of British literature. The narrative is at once a travelogue and a meditation on history, memory, and ideology, as the author moves through a country where the scars of the Battle of Stalingrad — fought in the city then renamed Volgograd — remain deeply visible in both the physical terrain and the collective consciousness of its people. Written with a poet's eye and a journalist's precision, the work presents a nuanced, humanizing view of Soviet life that resists Cold War caricature, making it a quietly powerful document of its era.
Author: Alan Sillitoe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, W. H. Allen
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A compelling work of travel writing and personal reflection, Road to Volgograd chronicles British novelist Alan Sillitoe's journey through the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, offering an intimate and unflinching portrait of a nation still shaped by the immense trauma of World War II. Sillitoe details the landscapes, people, and cities he encounters with the sharp, working-class sensibility that defined his celebrated fiction, bringing the same raw authenticity to nonfiction that made Saturday Night and Sunday Morning a landmark of British literature. The narrative is at once a travelogue and a meditation on history, memory, and ideology, as the author moves through a country where the scars of the Battle of Stalingrad — fought in the city then renamed Volgograd — remain deeply visible in both the physical terrain and the collective consciousness of its people. Written with a poet's eye and a journalist's precision, the work presents a nuanced, humanizing view of Soviet life that resists Cold War caricature, making it a quietly powerful document of its era.