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    "annotation": "Benya joins a penal cavalry of Cossacks and convicts and sets out to fight the Nazis, as Stalin's plans in the Kremlin intensify, and as Stalin's daughter begins a romance with a journalist who is also on the Eastern front, in this sweeping new historical fiction release from the }Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar{ author and regular BBC 4 presenter",
    "description": "Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis.<br/><br/>He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.<br/><br/>Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a heartbeat away.",
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