The Face of Fire - Dominique Hoffmann

Dominique Hoffmann

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  • Pages · 400 pages
  • Publication Date · 28/08/2026
  • Genre · Historical fiction
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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.

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