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The Face of Fire

By Oleksii Nikitin

The Face of Fire Historical Fiction

The Face of Fire

By Oleksii Nikitin

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In the wake of the horrors of civil war, the Holodomor, and Stalin's purges, the young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife, Feliksa, are looking ahead to a brighter future in Kyiv. Ilya, the top heavyweight boxer of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, is primed for victory as champion of the entire Soviet Union. Feliksa, a country girl and a star athlete in track, is deep in training for a major race. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything. The Face of Fire offers a tapestry of Ukrainian life under the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes-all based on declassified People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) files and Oleksii Nikitin's family archive.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2026-02-24
Publication Date:
2026-08-28
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0674304217
ISBN13:
9780674304215
Weight:
505 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
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