Author | Paullina Simons |
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Language | English |
Series | The Bronze Horseman Trilogy |
Genre | Romance, historical novel, war novel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 2000 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 912 pp (paperback) |
ISBN | 978-0-06-103112-0 (paperback) |
Followed by | Tatiana and Alexander |
The Bronze Horseman is a historical fiction novel written by Paullina Simons and the first book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy.
The book begins on 22 June 1941, the day that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the Second World War after Operation Barbarossa. Tatiana Metanova, nearly seventeen, meets the handsome and mysterious Red Army officer Alexander Belov.[1] The relationship between Tatiana and Alexander develops against the backdrop of the Siege of Leningrad and in the face of many difficulties.