The author, Czeslaw Milosz is a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is his first novel - cosndered one of his acheivments. It takes place in 1944 when Nazi rule over europe was crumbing and the REd Army, in pursuit of the enemy, pushed across Poland to meet the Weater alies on the Elbe.
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