Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Simon Sebag Montefiore est un maître conteur, tissant des récits complexes et captivants dans des décors historiques tumultueux. Ses œuvres plongent dans les profondeurs de la psyché humaine, explorant les thèmes de l'amour, de la passion, de la conspiration et de la rédemption. Le style de Montefiore se caractérise par son rythme soutenu, ses personnages richement dépeints et une évocation magistrale de l'atmosphère historique. Sa capacité à entrelacer les destins de personnages réels et imaginaires avec une telle précision en fait une voix singulière dans la fiction contemporaine.
Red Sky at Noon
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a hearbeat away.