August 1914 Author:Alexander Solzhenitsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize-winning author of One day in the Life of Jean Denisovich, The First Circle, and The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
Solzhenitsyn's classic novel has an interesting mix of fictional charachters and real persons both German and Russian who actually participated in the battles on the German/Russian front in the beginning of WWI.