The Time of the Assassins: Set in Ukraine, a shocking yet unputdownable novel of terrorism and war

Set in Ukraine, a terrifying novel of war, occupation and the totalitarian mind in action.

'Fascinating ... Blunden was in Russia during the war, and he was one of the correspondents who entered Kharkov ...The Time of the Assassins is history told from the dust's perspective [with] the truly nightmarish aspect of the experience of the survivors of Kharkov' New Yorker

In the late fall of 1941 the Germans entered Kharkov, at that time capital of the Ukraine. Sixteen months later the Red Army dr...