Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Author’s Note
Prologue
PART I Spring–Summer 1941
The knock at the door
The note
The bench
Anticipation
The birthday
Nikolai, grieving
The price of furniture
An almost inescapable legacy
Night watch
In Sollertinsky’s office
The first fight
At the fish market
The turning point
PART II Summer 1941
The Cossack and the dead boy
Trying to lie
Brandy, talk and the twelfth of July
The truth about Nina Varzar
The horseman
The secretive nature of the Elias men
The march
Counting down
Into the limelight
Meetings and partings
She will not go
The plea
PART III Autumn 1941
The descent
Running for cover
The night of fire
A kind of retreat
Heroes
Mining the past
What is the worst
Relatives
The gift
Rivals
The thief
Orders
PART IV Winter 1941–Summer 1942
The crawl
Resolutions
Attending to business
Revelations, after snow
A new front
The missing
Elias comes home
The letterbox
Priorities
Dress rehearsal
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About this Book
Reviews
About the Author
About Head of Zeus
Copyright