Simon Montefiore: Red Sky at Noon

‘A GRIPPING tale… Montefiore is BRILLIANT at depicting the BROODING MENACE… the [penal battalions] are given increasingly risky missions, it is Benya’s journey on horseback that we follow behind enemy lines in the grasslands of southern Russia… An EPIC tale… The language is arresting… It’s beautifully done: a WESTERN ON THE EASTERN FRONT.’

‘Exhilarated and terrified… Golden is plunged into a world where violent death could arrive at any moment and any pleasures that present themselves (an unexpected affair with an Italian nurse, for example) must be seized immediately. Sebag Montefiore PAINTS HIS VERBAL PICTURES of the WAR IN BOLD PRIMARY COLOURS… SHEER ENERGY OF STORYTELLING AND GRAND SWEEP OF NARRATIVE.’

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First published in Great Britain by Century in 2017

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