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Copyright © 2000 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
Translation copyright © 2004 by Michael Hofmann
First published in Germany as Die Stalinorgel by Claassen Verlag, Hamburg, 1955
This translation first published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2004
Cover photograph: Dead German soldier and tank, 1944; Keystone/Getty Images
Cover design: Katy Homans.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Ledig, Gert, 1921–
[Stalinorgel. English]
The Stalin front : a novel of World War II / by Gert Ledig ; translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann.
p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)
ISBN 1-59017-164-0 (alk. paper)
1. World War, 1939-1945—Fiction. I. Hofmann, Michael,
1957 Aug. 25– II. Title. III. Series.
PT2623.E232S713 2004
833'.914—dc22
2005013038
ISBN 978-1-59017-815-7
v1.0
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