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Informationen zum Autor Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the acclaimed novels of his Moscow Trilogy - Sashenka! Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter! which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize: the novels are published in 27 languages. Montefiore is also the author of prize-winning bestselling history books now in 48 languages! including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar! Jerusalem: The Biography and The Romanovs. For more information see: www.simonsebagmontefiore.com or follow him on Twitter: @simonmontefiore. Klappentext 'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire ...' 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 enrols in the Russian cavalry! and on a hot summer day in July 1942! he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia! and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin! between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front! this is a sweeping story of passion! bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion! and death just a heartbeat away. Praise for Red Sky at Noon 'The gripping final instalment of the Moscow Trilogy tells of a man wrongly imprisoned in the Gulags and his fight for redemption. Love in dark times! meticulously researched... In this searing tale of love and war! most moving is the redemptive relationship between a soldier and a nurse that blooms amid the brutality. An homage to the author's favourite Russian writers and the Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry! Cormac McCarthy and Elmore Leonard! such influences pervade this atmospheric tale told in the author's distinct own voice.' - Observer Zusammenfassung Gripping storytelling allied with intimate! unsqueamish knowledge of Russian history - a special combination.' - AD Miller! author of Snowdrops'A GRIPPING tale ... ...
