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Deeper Than Darkness
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Malkhazi Rashoev
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fall 1942. The bridge falls. So does everything else.
Thirteen German saboteurs slip behind Soviet lines to destroy a single bridge feeding ammunition into Stalingrad. The mission succeeds in minutes. Surviving it takes everything else.
What follows isn't a story about heroes - it's about the men left behind once the ideology stops mattering. Captured and shipped to a Gulag mine in the Urals, they trade one war for another: hunger, betrayal, and a tunnel that may not lead anywhere at all.
Told through the alternating voices of the men who lived it - soldiers, a Soviet defector with nothing left to lose, and interrogators on both sides who never learn the whole truth - Deeper Than Darkness asks what's left of a person once the flag, the oath, and the enemy all stop meaning anything.
There are no clean sides in this story. Only the ones who make it out - and the ones who don't get to choose how.
A war novel for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief - but without the mercy.
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