Simon Sebag Montefiore - Vöröslő ég a Don felett

Summer of 1942. The Red Army, beheaded in Stalin's purges and decimated by the formidable German war machine, is on the verge of disintegration.
German troops are relentlessly advancing towards the Don - if they reach the Caucasus oil fields, it could mean the end of the entire Soviet Union.
Benya Golden, once a celebrated writer, now a Gulag inmate, faces the seemingly unstoppable German offensive as a member of a mounted punishment squad of common-law criminals and anti-establishment Cossacks - the Dead. A suicide mission orders them behind enemy lines, but what is the life of someone condemned by the Party anyway? Meanwhile, in Moscow, Stalin weaves his plans to reverse the losing war, and his lonely daughter, Svetlana, meets her first love amid the destruction.
The breathtaking next part of Simon Sebag Montefiore's Moscow trilogy takes the reader from the blood-soaked Russian steppes to the gruesome barracks of the Gulag to the terror-soaked halls of the Kremlin. The Red Sky over the Don is a story of inhuman carnage, survival and fragile love blossoming in the shadow of death.