Red Sky At Noon

Simon Sebag Montefiore Arrow €12.99

It’s 1942 and Benya Golden, a Jewish intellectual sent to the gulag on trumped-up charges, joins a penal battalion. Unfortunately for him, he is immediately flung into battle against the Nazis as they advance on Stalingrad. Meanwhile, Stalin himself is holed up in the Kremlin, his monstrous paranoia blighting the life of even his own daughter. A gripping historical novel with a panoramic sweep.