The lieutenant's lover
By: Harry Bingham
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780007205462; 9780007205516; 9780007240951
Subjects: Fiction; Officers; Spy stories; Cold War; History; Politics and government; Armed Forces; Social aspects; Russia. Armii͡a; Russia
Description: Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been bitter enemies; and yet they fall passionately in love. It cannot last, and Misha must flee the country as Tonya faces arrest and possibly worse.