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Against a crimson sky, James Conroyd Martin

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Against a crimson sky, James Conroyd Martin

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eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Against a crimson sky

Responsibility statement

James Conroyd Martin

Series statement

Poland trilogy, bk. 2

Summary

AGAINST A CRIMSON SKY tells the interrelated stories of four characters in the aftermath of the violent dissolution of Poland in 1794 and culminates in the doomed 1812 winter march into Russia. Countess Anna Maria Berezowska has finally married her true love, Jan Stelnicki, but life is anything but ideal. Not long into their union, Jan takes to the battlefield in the hopes of ensuring a sovereign Poland for his children. Meanwhile, his best friend on the front lines continues to pine for Anna's cousin, Zofia, but she has her sights set a little higher, on the emperor Napoleon

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