One Night in Winter
Reeks: The Moscow Trilogy
Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Winner
- of
- the
- Political
- Fiction
- Book
- of
- the
- Year
- 2014.By
- the
- author
- of
- the
- world-wide
- bestsellers,
- Jerusalem,
- and
- Stalin:
- The
- Court
- of
- the
- Red
- Tsar,
- and
- based
- on
- a
- true
- story,
- a
- heart-breaking,
- addictively
- readable
- love
- story
- set
- in
- Stalin's
- Russia.If
- your
- children
- were
- forced
- to
- testify
- against
- you,
- what
- terrible
- secrets
- would
- they
- reveal?Moscow
- 1945.
- As
- Stalin
- and
- his
- courtiers
- celebrate
- victory
- over
- Hitler,
- shots
- ring
- out.
- On
- a
- nearby
- bridge,
- a
- teenage
- boy
- and
- girl
- lie
- dead.But
- this
- is
- no
- ordinary
- tragedy
- and
- these
- are
- no
- ordinary
- teenagers,
- but
- the
- children
- of
- Russia’s
- most
- important
- leaders
- who
- attend
- the
- most
- exclusive
- school
- in
- Moscow.Is
- it
- murder?
- A
- suicide
- pact?
- Or
- a
- conspiracy
- against
- the
- state?Directed
- by
- Stalin
- himself,
- an
- investigation
- begins
- as
- children
- are
- arrested
- and
- forced
- to
- testify
- against
- their
- friends
- -
- and
- their
- parents.
- This
- terrifying
- witch-hunt
- soon
- unveils
- illicit
- love
- affairs
- and
- family
- secrets
- in
- a
- hidden
- world
- where
- the
- smallest
- mistakes
- will
- be
- punished
- with death.
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