Sadly whenever you have the surname and the country of birth that Alexei Tolstoy does you are always going to be compared to the great Russ...

I avoided posting about this last night because it was just a few pages until the end and it seemed like a better idea to hold it over until...

The book is moving into the final stages and it looks set for a happy ending. Of course in this context a happy ending means that everyone b...

The two strands of the story with the two sisters start to get to a stage where you can see them coming back together again with a possible ...

This epic Tolystian mimicking tale starts to get down to brass tacks with the real battle that is being fought in Russia coming to the fore ...

To a certain degree one half of the story starts to fuse with Dasha finally meeting Telegin in a makeshift army hospital. She keeps her iden...

The story picks up with the civil war entering its last stage. There is a bit of description that makes you feel slightly disappointed readi...

The end of part II comes with the reversal in fortunes once again with the Reds galvanised by the Red Terror launching total war on their en...

At the back of your mind you cannot help thinking that Tolstoy was awarded the Stalin prize for this book. Having read some Russian civil wa...

Having introduced Telegin and Roshchin as Red and White army soldiers the narrative then moves to focus on both of their wives. Katia is dev...

The second part of the Roads to Calvary is titled 1918 and this is a time of civil war in Russia. The battle for the country is being wage...

There is a point at which two officers who were acquaintances before the war come across each other in the middle of a battle and one remark...

This is one of those books that are the literary equivalent of going on a hike up a mountain. With 600 odd pages lying ahead and small type ...