Red Sky at Noon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681779072)

Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines--but is there a traitor among them? The only thing Benya can truly trust is his horse, Silver Socks, and that he will find no mercy in onslaught of Hitler's troops as they push East.Spanning ten epic days, between Benya's war on the grasslands of southern Russia and Stalin's intrigues in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a war correspondent, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery, and survival--where betrayal is a constant companion, death just a heartbeat away, and love, however fleeting, offers a glimmer of redemption.

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN-10: 1681779072
ISBN-13: 9781681779072
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2018
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10d