Translated from the Russian ,  a sort of love tale set in 1919, during the Russian Civil War . A small force of Red Army soldiers that survived a crushing defeat by the Whites is forced to flee into the Karakum Desert. Among them is female sniper Maria, who has already claimed thirty-eight enemies dead……
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Great dustjacket and hardback in good condition. First published in 1924 this is a later 1926 edition published by The Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow.