Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour, published in 1933, is James Hilton's gripping novel of the Russian Revolution. Dorvington Dorvington, a mild-mannered English translator recruited into espionage, finds himself stranded in revolutionary Russia with the Countess Alexandra, a woman whose aristocratic world is being destroyed. As they flee across a landscape of chaos and violence, the novel becomes both a thriller and a love story set against one of the twentieth century's great upheavals. Hilton handles the political backdrop with nuance, refusing to reduce the Revolution to simple heroism or villainy.