And Quiet Flows the Don; A Novel

from Rocky_Wing

this book started out wondrously. the pace excellent, the characters deep, the plot and conflict moving and interesting. it went progressively downhill from there. the war section, i began to lose interest. there was nothing redeeming in the revolution section. a great struggle to even finish tha...

from PilgrimJess

"He had no cap, nor had he the upper part of his cranium, for it had been cut clean away by a shard of shrapnel. In the empty brain-pan, framed by damp strains of hair, glimmered rose-coloured rain-water." This is a book written in an 'epic' style based around the famous warrior Cossacks of the D...

from TheWasp

Gregor Melekov and his brother Piotra are cossack farmers on the Don River in the village of Tatarsk when WW1 breaks out and young men are sent to war. Civil war follows which sees many cossacks fighting against each other. This book is beautifully written and deserves to be read without distract...

from TheWasp

Gregor Melekov and his brother Piotra are cossack farmers on the Don River in the village of Tatarsk when WW1 breaks out and young men are sent to war. Civil war follows which sees many cossacks fighting against each other. This book is beautifully written and deserves to be read without distract...