August 1914 By Alexander Solzhenitsyn

August 1914 By Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Hardcover

ISBN 0370014650

Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd 1972 First Edition. Third Impression.

Very Good- The DJ has some very limited signs of wear and tear. The book is now covered with a cellophane cover. Slight Foxing.

This is an excellent copy of Solzhenitsyn's sixth book. 645 pp plus folding map (in perfect condition) at the back.

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform.

August 1914 is the first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic, The Red Wheel; the second is November 1916. Each of the subsequent volumes will concentrate on another critical moment or "knot," in the history of the Revolution.