August 1914 (novel)

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August 1914

The cover of the first English edition published by The Bodley Head in 1972
Author	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Original title	Август 1914
Translator	Michael Glenny
Language	Russian
Series	The Red Wheel
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	YMCA Press
Publication date	1971; 1984
Publication place	Soviet Union
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	573 pp; 850+ pp (Second version)
Followed by	November 1916

August 1914 (Russian: Август четырнадцатого) is a Russian novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel was completed in 1970, although there is a foreword from the author saying that it is not complete, rather a "first part, or facsile, of a work in many parts;" first published in 1971, with an English translation the following year.^[1] The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historical point of view. The book also contains several interludes noted as "screen" written as set direction for a film.

Some episodes of the book had caused in accusations of the author of anti-Semitism, mostly rebutted at the time,^[2] but these were renewed later, regarding Two Hundred Years Together.