Red Sky at Noon

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'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 a' 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. 'A master storyteller - his fiction is compelling' GQ 'A natural storyteller who brings his encycolopedic knowledge of Russian history to life in language that glittlers like the ice of St Petersburg.' Washington Post '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 a' 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. 'A master storyteller - his fiction is compelling' GQ 'A natural storyteller who brings his encycolopedic knowledge of Russian history to life in language that glittlers like the ice of St Petersburg.' Washington Post
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a renowned storyteller whose prize-winning, bestselling novels are published in over 27 languages. Red Sky at Noon is the third of the trilogy of acclaimed novels, Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Political Novel of the Year Prize and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. His history books include Jerusalem- the Biography, Stalin- the Court of the Red Tsar, and most recently, The Romanovs. They are bestsellers all around the world. Most of his books, including Young Stalin and The Romanovs are being developed as film and television dramas. Angelina Jolie has optioned Catherine the Great & Potemkin, whilst Twentieth Century Fox have bought his children's book Royal Rabbits of London (co-written with Santa Montefiore) as an animated movie series. For more information see- www.simonsebagmontefiore.com