Red Sky at Noon

Resumen del libro

'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 hearbeat 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

Biografía del autor

Simon Sebag Montefiore estudió Historia en el Gonville x{0026}amp; Caius College de Cambridge. Durante la década de 1990 viajó por toda la antigua Unión Soviética, especialmente por el Cáucaso, Ucrania, Asia central y escribió sobre Rusia para el Sunday Times, el New York Times y el Spectator, entre otros periódicos. Ha presentado documentales para la televisión y ha escrito dos novelas, así como algunos ensayos, entre los que destacan Kingx{0026} x02019;s Parade (1991) y Prince of Princes: the Life of Potemkin (2000), nominado a premios de biografía Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper y Marsh. En Crítica ha publicado Llamadme Stalin (2007), La corte del zar rojo (2004), Titanes de la historia (2012) y Jerusalén. La biografía (2011).