“Black Domes”. A Shot into the Past

The color of war is neither protective khaki nor blood-red. The color of war is black. A mourning, smoky sky. Faces blackened by ingrained dirt, unbearable exhaustion, and chronic frontline lack of sleep. Blood clotted black as bitumen. Even the golden church domes seem black through the tarry smoke of conflagrations… "Black Domes" is another book by Alexander Kontorovich, the author of such bestsellers as "Black Pea Coats," "Black Infantry," and "Black Death"… This is a new, and not the last, reconnaissance raid by our contemporary into the year 1941. Against him work the best aces of the Abwehr, saboteurs from the Brandenburg-800 battalion, and the sniper elite of the Wehrmacht. On his side — only a handful of encircled soldiers…