Red sky at noon
Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965-2017
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Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden is doomed to die in the dreaded Kolyma camps until, with the onset of war, he joins a penal battalion made up of murderers and criminals to fight the Nazis. They have been promised their freedom - but in order to earn this they must first shed their own blood in battle. Benya joins the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of ruffians are sent on a desperate mission which they are unlikely to survive. They charge a line of German tanks, breaking through into enemy territory. Lost behind enemy lines where Russian fights Russian and no one can be trusted, Benya struggles in a crucible of hell where renegades and traitors, Nazis, Cossacks and Italians soak the steppes with blood in the most terrifying moments in modern human warfare.
Main title:
Red sky at noon / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Author:
Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965-, author
Imprint:
London : Century, 2017.
Collation:
x, 397 pages : map (black and white) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781780894720 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONF
Language:
English
BRN:
2496187