August 1914 Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of "The Red Wheel". The other titles in this series include "October 1916" and "Lenin in Zurich". Other books by Solzhenitsyn include "The Gulag Archipelago".
Solzhenitsyn's classic novel has an interesting mix of fictional charachters and real persons both German and Russian who actually participated in the battles on the German/Russian front in the beginning of WWI.