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Europe Central (English)Library Edition - ISBN: 9780143036593 - See 3 other editionsPublisher: Penguin Group USA Format: Paperback Published Date: November 2005 MSRP: $18.00 Synopsis: William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Sh... read more William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German general Paulus), along with figures from German mythology, into a narrative that aims to find equivalences between Nazism and Stalinism and to show exactly what "just following orders" meant to the actual people who were involved. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction. minimize
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