num_pages: 456
description: Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
language: English
title: Night Soldiers
titlecomplete: Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
characters: Vassily Antipin, Sascha Vonets, Ilya Goldman, Khristo Stoianev
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Spy Thriller, World War II, Espionage, Mystery Thriller, Historical, War, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 11613
series: Night Soldiers
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks