The novel “For a Just Cause” is an outstanding work about war, powered by the strength of truth and the author’s talent—by the power of the author’s thought. V. Grossman describes the great “miracle” of Stalingrad.
In 1952 Grossman published the novel “For a Just Cause” (1953; after the devastating article by M. Bubenno v in the newspaper “Pravda,” it appeared in 1954 in an abridged version; full edition 1956), which, alongside other works of the so-called “trench truth” about war, put its real fighters—against the backdrop of real, sometimes dramatic circumstances (encirclement and the breakout from it)—right at the forefront of its heroes.