Kyiv
Hurley, Graham2021
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On Sunday 22nd June, 1941, at 03.05, three and a half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1800 mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucasus and the oil fields beyond. Kyiv was the biggest city to stand in their way.Within six weeks, the city was under siege. Surrounded by Panzers, bombed and shelled day and night, Soviet Commissar Nikita Khrushchev was amongst the senior Soviet officials co-ordinating the defence. Amid his cadre of trusted personnel is British defector Bella Menzies, once with MI5, now with the NKVD. With the fall of the city inevitable, the Soviets plan a bloody war of terror that will extort a higher toll on the city's inhabitants than the invaders. As the noose tightens, Bella finds herself trapped, hunted by both the Russians and the Germans.
Main title:
Kyiv / Graham Hurley.
Author:
Hurley, Graham, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2021.
Collation:
403 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781838938321 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Related title:
Kyiv [electronic resource]
BRN:
1042361