Retreat From Rostov Part Three

By Paul Hughes
Published by UCS PRESS
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Published: Aug. 15, 2011
Words: 71060 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Here is how a feature in TIME Magazine described Retreat From Rostov: The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood. This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat

Extended description

This book is Part Three of Three Parts that collectively tell the story of thirty-four days in late 1941 which saw armies of Adolf Hitler defeated for the first time, at Rostov in the North Caucasus.

Its characters—with the obvious exceptions of Stalin, Hitler, Timoshenko, von Kleist, and others equally well known to fame—are fictional. But its historical matters, military movements, communiqués, and the like, are authentic.

Originally published in 1943 as a nearly 600-page war novel by Random House, it was dedicated by Paul Hughes “in worshipful humility, to the Russian people, who, without drama and without complaint, are shedding their blood so copiously in defense of their land.”

Within one week the advance printing of 15,000 books was sold out, and Random House immediately ordered the next printing. Critics hailed it as one of the best war stories to be written while World War II raged. Three generations later this amazing treasure trove of memorable characters drawn... (Read more) This book is Part Three of Three Parts that collectively tell the story of thirty-four days in late 1941 which saw armies of Adolf Hitler defeated for the first time, at Rostov in the North Caucasus.

Its characters—with the obvious exceptions of Stalin, Hitler, Timoshenko, von Kleist, and others equally well known to fame—are fictional. But its historical matters, military movements, communiqués, and the like, are authentic.

Originally published in 1943 as a nearly 600-page war novel by Random House, it was dedicated by Paul Hughes “in worshipful humility, to the Russian people, who, without drama and without complaint, are shedding their blood so copiously in defense of their land.”

Within one week the advance printing of 15,000 books was sold out, and Random House immediately ordered the next printing. Critics hailed it as one of the best war stories to be written while World War II raged. Three generations later this amazing treasure trove of memorable characters drawn from the fertile mind of Paul Hughes continues to fascinate those who read it.

It is an amazing array of multi-faceted word pictures of male and female characters that the reader will not soon forget. It was soap opera on a grand scale before soaps took over day-time television.
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world war ii, russia, rostov, hitler, germany, stalin, war strategy, winter warfare, don river, hitlers defeat

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