August 1914 / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by H.T. Willetts.

London : Vintage Books, 2014.

vi, 816 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 1989.

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperately, even as the inevitability of failure and their own sacrifice dawns. Solzhenitsyn's work of historical fiction is a portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia, a tragic war story, and an epic novel in the great Russian tradition.

9780099589556 (pbk)

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