Red Sky at Noon (Moscow Trilogy)

Red Sky at Noon (Moscow Trilogy)

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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Switching between Benya&#39;s war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin&#39;s plans in the Kremlin, between Benya&#39;s intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin&#39;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.<br />