num_pages: 144
description: From exile in Paris, Alyosha recreates his happy years with his friend Arkady in a village commune outside Leningrad in the 1960s. Alyosha looks back on the halcyon days and remembers the summer in which everything changed, when they learned the horror of what their parents had suffered.
language: English
title: Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer
titlecomplete: Confessions of a Lapsed Standard-Bearer
genres: France, World War II, Childrens, Russia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 223
publisher: Sceptre