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410 pages.
Summary: 1954: The Winter Soldier is the Soviet Union's greatest weapon. Assigned the most dangerous missions from the USSR's secret military branch he has only one purpose: to obey orders. But he wasn't always the Winter Soldier. 1941: As World War II begins, sixteen-year-old Bucky Barnes is determined to enlist in the US army. When Bucky is offered enrollment in a training program with the British Special Operations Executive he leaps at the chance to become a hero. But he finds himself running from a mysterious assassin, accompanied by an English chess champion fond of red lipstick and double crosses. She's in possession of a secret every side is desperate to get their hands on. Decades later, the Winter Soldier struggles to solve the same mystery Bucky is just beginning to uncover. As their missions intersect across time, their lives collide too in a way that neither of them would have expected, and that will change the course of their respective wars.