August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

August 1914

The Red Wheel #1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Michael Glenny (Translator)

645 pages first pub 1971 (editions) user-added

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
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Solzhenitsyn is Russia's greatest living writer, a man whose spirit stands in solitary splendour against tyranny and oppression. August 1914 is his greatest book, a vast panoramic epic of war, its heroism and its tragic bearing on the destiny of a...

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