Red Sky At Noon

Simon Sebag Montefiore Arrow €12.60

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