About the book: 2007 / Winter Battle - the battle of four teenagers who escaped from boarding schools, more like prisons, in order to resume the fight for freedom, lost by their parents fifteen years ago. Do they have at least one chance to escape from the terrible man-dogs chasing them in the icy mountains? Should they hope for the generous help of a tribe of horse people? Will they survive in the arenas where the Phalanx's newly fashionable barbarian gladiator battles take place? Their battle is a grandiose hymn to courage and freedom - one that is said to be lost in advance. And yet…