The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism Review

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The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism ReviewI just read this book and recommend it highly. While it could have used some better editing it tells a bunch of stories that could be the basis for a series of great movies like Defiance. The Amazon product description makes the point about the books exploration of the distinctiveness of the Minsk experience, where a history of relatively low levels of Antisemitism in Belarussia (low for Eastern Europe that is) was reinforced by an egalitarian and overtly anti-Antisemitic Soviet ideology to create the basis for a multi-ethnic resistance movement with broad support from the population as a whole and active support for Jews by ordinary Belarusians and the Belarussian partisan movement which had Jews in its leadership, Jews in its fighting organizations and Jewish fighting units. Some 10,000 Jews were therefore able to escape from the Minsk Ghetto and join the Partisans. Epstein points out the sharp contrast between the situation in Belarussia and those in Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine where Jews found little outside support and sometimes great hostility. She provides overwhelming evidence for her thesis. She also follow up on the wartime resistance story with the postwar denigration of the Minsk resistance and the persecution of its leaders by a Belarussian Communist Party leadership that wanted to cover up the fact that they had fled from the Germans and made no preparations for the creation of an underground resistance. The resistance was only honored at the end of the 1950s after the deStalinization campaign and only then were some of its leaders released from the Gulag. All in all an inspiring and sobering tale.
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Moscow Stories Review

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Moscow Stories ReviewAs someone who has travelled to Moscow many times between 1986 and 1996 I found Moscow Stories to be an accurate account of the history of the period. My own experiences back up, for me, what he has written. The author's observations about Russians and their culture demonstrate that he has spent quite a bit of time in Russia with Russians and that while there, he was a keen observer of what is going on around him. The book is very authentic and a must read for someone who has an interest in Russia both then and now and seeks a better understanding of Russia today.Moscow Stories Overview

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The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives Review

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The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives ReviewThis is the most sensational volume to appear so far in Yale University Press's rapidly growing library on Soviet espionage during the 1930s and 40s. The authors-espionage journalist Nigel West (pseudonym of Rupert Allason, a Conservative ex-MP) and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB operative posted to London-accessed Moscow Center files to confirm, disconfirm, or extend what has long been known, believed, or suspected about the Cambridge Five (Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross) as well as a host of lesser but highly effective agents. Richly detailed and slickly written, The Crown Jewels is a riveting read and a potential supplement to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassilev's The Haunted Wood and another Yale volume Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. But let the reader beware: West does not play entirely straight with the reader. Wrapping up a long and important chapter on Cairncross, he asserts that after exposure in 1979, the first atomic spy "fled to France and completed his memoirs shortly before his death in 1995." In fact, Cairncross lived in Italy for well over a decade after The London Times named him and a half-dozen "mole journalists" (including West) began detailing his activities, often with Cairncross's limited and self-serving cooperation. But-most interestingly-during Cairncross's last months, spent not in France but in the Cotswolds (with the permission of H.M. Government), West himself ghost-wrote, packaged, and marketed the first version of the verbally incapacitated Fifth Man's "recollections", The Enigma Spy. Based on Cairncross's fragmentary notes and his second wife's recall of his table talk, that book, published in 1997, is now widely discredited. Why the mis- (and dis-) information? Why the coverup of West's intimate connection with Cairncross? Could this book contain other such "problems"? Persuasive as The Crown Jewels may be, it must be read with a gimlet eye.The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives Overview

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Red Star Rising: A Thriller Review

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Red Star Rising: A Thriller ReviewCharlie Muffin is a funny name for a spy and Charlie Muffin is a funny kind of spy. You won't find him wearing an Armani tux or behind the wheel of a sports car, he's more of the ruffled hair, Hush Puppy shoe wearing type of spy. His newest adventure, RED STAR RISING, is Brian Freemantle's fourteenth book featuring Charlie going back to 1977, when the cold war was very deep, very dark and very real.
Over the years Charlie has fought, and won, as many battles against his own agency as he has against the Russians and in RED STORM RISING he's back on the familiar battlefield with his only weapons his instinctive paranoia and his almost Holmesan clear view of events. Charlie is dispatched to investigate when a dead body is found on the grounds of the British Embassy in Moscow. Soon listening devices are discovered at the embassy and it becomes apparent that there is a security leak among the staff. Charlie must somehow get past the roadblocks put up by the Russians, the CIA, the incompetent embassy staff and from within his own agency to uncover the truth. A truth that goes much deeper and is far more frightening than even Charlie can imagine.
Brian Freemantle is an often neglected giant among espionage writers easily ranking with John LeCarre and Graham Greene as among the best England has ever produced and RED STAR RISING is a fabulous book. The mystery elements are very well handled with enough red herrings to fool even the most avid reader and the spy-craft elements are, as always, first rate. While some of the supporting cast may be a little weak it all "feels" right and they all serve their purpose moving the story along to its frankly sensational and, for long time readers of the series, heartrending conclusion.
I loved this book and hope you will, too. It's not often hidden treasures such as the Charlie Muffin books come to a reader's attention, I hope that those new to this series will gain as much enjoyment from it as I have over the last thirty years. With Mr. Freemantle now in his seventies this may one of the last times we meet Charlie Muffin, I have to say that I wish that just once Charlie could catch a break as he deserves more than a run down Vauxhall flat, a bottle of whisky and bad feet...
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