WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement?
‘A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine
‘A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it’ NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world.
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.
‘Entertaining and vivid… This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER
‘Reads like a thriller’ THE SUN
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’ Philippa Gregory
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‘A love letter to this ancient capital’ THE TIMES
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year
‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era’ ANNE APPLEBAUM
‘This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON
‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW
‘This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy now.’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The definitive account of covert operations to influence elections from the Cold War to 2016 – and why the threat is greater than ever in 2020.
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II.
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‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ THE TIMES
They thought they would be safe in Britain. They were wrong.
