Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. An adventure thriller set on the vast grasslands of central Russia during the summer of 1942 just before the Battle of Stalingrad.
A new novel from the bestselling author of "The Romanovs".