Days and Nights by Konstantine Simonov

[Roscoe]

Hello All

Thought I'd let you'll know about a great book I just finnished reading that takes place during the siege of Stalingrad.

Days and Nights follows Captain Saburov through roughly 60 days of the seige. I found it to be an excellent story of soldiers during that time. Simonov really creates characters you care about and wrights a faced paced story.There were times I was racing through the text to find out what was going to happen next.

The tone of the book is patriotic but not overly so. It's interesting to read some of the subtle critisism voiced by the characters to official army polocies. Also I the treatment of commisars was nice. I normally think of them a meddling incompantants but Simonov creates sympathetic and caring men.

Finally, there is a lot of discussion of awards and medals. Simonov relates how important these were to the soldiers and officers and it reminds me that there were real men and women who did herioc deeds behind those pretty pieces of shiney enamal and silver that I have on my wall.

The book is available on Amazon.

Roscoe