"Days and Nights" by Konstantin Simonov, translated by Joseph Barnes, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1945. First Book of the Month Edition.

Hard boards, brick-red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 5.1/2" x 8.1/4"; 421 pages + 'About Author' page, very good condition.

"Days and Nights is the first novel by Russia's most successful young reporter and playwright. It is an attempt to describe, without propaganda stereotypes, the new sense of themselves Russians have acquired during the World War II. So far as the publishers know, this is the first serious non-political novel to come out of the Soviet Union."

"The setting of Days and Nights is the massive and terrible struggle for Stalingrad, where Russia turned the Nazi tide. The novel is not a description of the large Stalingrad battle, but only the tale of seventy days and nights in which a small group of Russian soldiers under command of young officer seized and held three apartment houses in Stalingrad. It defines, as well, the subtle ways in which patriotism and a desire for happiness have taken first importance in the minds and hearts of many Russian men and women. It has been called by critics the best novel of the Red Army and its long war against the Nazi Germany."

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