Publisher's Synopsis
HENRY WAKEFIELD'S WAR. This is a tale set against the Russian Civil War of love and war when American doughboys were sent to fight on the side of the anti-Bolshevik Whites. Combining Stephen Crane's RED BADGE OF COURAGE with Boris Pasternak's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO to provide a tumultuous background for this novel, Henry Wakefield from Iowa one day meets Anya Mikhailova Krylov, a Russian nurse, when he is wounded in battle. Coming from different worlds, the American boy and the Russian girl will try to overcome the cultural and national barriers dividing them from their love for each other. This novel takes the reader into a forgotten and little-known world when Lenin dueled against Wilson over the fate of Revolutionary Russia in its moment of greatest peril. It was our intervention and failure in the Russian Civil War that set the tone for the poisonous relationship between Russia and America which still lingers to this day.
