Days and Nights Author:Konstantine Simonov So far as the publishers know this is the first non-political serious novel to come out of the Soviet Union. — The characters are simple, believable human beings, whose souls belong neither to Dostoievsky nor to Karl Marx, but to themselves and to their country. — The setting is the massive struggle for Stalingrad, where Russia turned the Nazi tid... more »e and, possibly, won the war as much as any single battle won it.« less