Days retailer and Nights FIRST American Edition Simonov, Konstantine Tanslated from the Russian By Joseph Barnes

About this Item: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1945. Burnt Orange Hard Cover. Condition: VG+ Jacket VG. Clean pages, clear type, tight binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
The story is a simple one. It is the tale of seventy days and nights in which a young Red Army officer seized and held three apartment houses in Stalingrad. It defines, as well, the subtle ways in which patriotism and a desire for happiness have taken first importance in the minds and hearts of many Russian men and women. It has been called by critics the best novel of the Red Army and its long war against the Germans.

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (Russian: Константин Михайлович Симонов, 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author and a war poet. He was retailer a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me.

During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War. His poem Wait for Me, about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return, remains one of the best-known poems in Russian literature. The poem was addressed to his future wife, the actress Valentina Serova. Many of his poems for Valentina were included in the book With You and Without You.

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