Alexander Bek

Alexander Bek was born on 3 January 1903 in the Saratov governorate, the son of an Imperial Army doctor. A volunteer in the Red Army at sixteen, he wrote from 1919 for a divisional newspaper. In 1941 he enlisted again, in a writers' company in Moscow, then became a war correspondent and witnessed the defence of the capital. A novel he completed in 1965 was published in the Soviet Union only in 1986, after a first edition in Frankfurt in 1972. He died in Moscow on 2 November 1972.

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• NovelVolokolamsk HighwayВолоколамское шоссеAlexander Bek · 1943Literature