Night Soldiers
By Alan Furst
1988
First Published
3.94
Average Rating
448
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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.
Avg Rating
3.94
Number of Ratings
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Author
Alan Furst
Author · 18 books
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the current master of the historical spy novel. Born in New York, he has lived for long periods in France, especially Paris. He now lives on Long Island. Night Soldiers novels * Night Soldiers (1988) * Dark Star (1991) * The Polish Officer (1995) * The World at Night (1996) * Red Gold (1999) * Kingdom of Shadows (2000) * Blood of Victory (2003) * Dark Voyage (2004) * The Foreign Correspondent (2006) * The Spies of Warsaw (2008) * Spies of the Balkans (2010) * Mission to Paris (2012) * Midnight in Europe (2013) * Under Occupation (2019) Stand-alone novels * Your day in the barrel (1976) * The Paris drop (1980) * The Caribbean Account (1981) * Shadow Trade (1983) For more information, see Wikipedia.
