'An overwhelmingly honest account of one boy's wartime memories'

'Written to almost make you wish you had been there'

'Terrific, an insightful memoir about family love'

Vividly readable... Leslie Thomas is one of nature's life enchancers

A fine storyteller

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