Hearing those involved talk about the 1982 conflict conjures up images more vivid than any photograph.

Magnificent... Any war correspondent writing today about the horrors we are still being subjected to by ideologues, mean-spirited leaders and fanatics of various shades and faiths, should take the time to read him. There is a profound humanity in his prose, an abilitity for empathy and a capacity for rage that one rarely meets

Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years before him, lifts war correspondence to new heights

As a pithy account of war at its most extreme, this fascinating book will rarely be bettered

Unforgettable... Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have recovered nothing less than a lost classic of reportage

Grossman was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about

Impeccably edited, the commentary as informative as it is unobtrusive.

In bringing his notebooks to a wider audience, and in reminding us about this brilliant witness, Beevor and Vinogradova have done their readers - and Grossman's memory - a great service

'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War