Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Vasily Grossman
Born: December 12, 1905
Died: September 14, 1964 (aged 58)
Bio: Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist. Grossman was trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed his career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels.
Known for:
- Life and Fate
- A Writer at War
- Everything Flows
- An Armenian Sketchbook
- Forever Flowing