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'Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] fabulous romp of a book'****
The story of the communist super-spy Otto Katz reads like the history of the first half of the twentieth century. His story takes us from ...
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'
In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the ...
'A masterpiece of history'
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Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many ...
From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the ...
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators ...
A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia's destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine ...
A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR.
In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions ...
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it ...
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'Masterful . . . a chilling ...
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's ...
