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Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Review: Rogue Agent by James Crossland

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Synopsis: The thrilling biography of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Britain's 'Agent' in Moscow Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970) w...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Review: The Murder of Alexander Litvinenko by Boris Volodarsky

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Synopsis: In his famous Moonlight and Vodka , Chris de Burgh got it Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it mu...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon

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From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured Amer...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Too Secret Too Long by Chapman Pincher

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Chapman Pincher, the Cold War and the spy scandals which shocked the nation. Chapman Pincher, the “ lone wolf of Fleet Street ”, is now rega...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Review: Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev

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Synopsis:   In 2018, a former Russian secret agent and his daughter were poisoned with a lethal neurotoxin that left them slumped over on a ...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Blog Tour: Wicked By Design by Katy Moran

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About the book  1819: CORNWALL.  Four women sit in the candlelit drawing-room at Nansmornow, an ancient Cornish manor house. The air is...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Review: A Short Life of Pushkin

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"A short yet fascinating account of Russia's most celebrated writer. "   And that's it in a nut-shell.   I was initia...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard 1935-1936

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Read a review of " The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard 1935-1936 " by Ivan Christyakov at the StarTribune :...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books

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Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books That Infected Europe in the 1800s | Atlas Obscura   Dr. Alois Pichler was almost always surrounded ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

‘The Romanovs: 1613-1918,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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‘The Romanovs: 1613-1918,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore - The New York Times The story of the Romanov dynasty began in 1613 with Michael Rom...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

September Additions - Part 3

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And, finally, Part 3 of September's additions to the Library: Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian Relati...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Most Beautiful Princess - Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna

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Christina Croft talks about " Most Beautiful Princess – A Novel Based on the life of Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia ". ...