| Night Soldiers Contributor(s): Furst, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375760008 ISBN-13: 9780375760006 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Literary Criticism - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002017947 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.79 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale. |