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The story continues from Part 1 of the trilogy. Socialist revolution is in the making but due to the slow start of this book, it's first a bit like watching the paint dry. When the action finally starts to happen, the reader is taken to the frontline to face the harsh realities of a civil war, where friends become foes and loyal companions may betray you. There is death and destruction and brutality on both sides. Winners wrote the history and the Red Guard was usually seen as the bad ones, even though they often only wanted justice and freedom from the oppression. It gets easily very political but suffering in a construction camp before being taken to the woods to get shot was the reality in 1918 and this book might have been one important reason why the suffering was not forgotten.