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In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point,... more

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  Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time

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  • Posted:May-02-2008

  • The Battles Behind the Scenes of the "Most Notorious Chess Duel in History".
  • "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" revisits the Cold War showdown between Soviet World Chess Champion Boris Spassky and American enfant terrible Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland in the summer of 1972....
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  • Posted:Oct-29-2007

  • Boring, unengaging, superficial.
  • As someone with a moderate curiosity in chess, and wanting to be drawn into its world through enlightening analysis, this book is simply atrocious. To my way of thinking, the purpose in reading...
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  • Posted:May-18-2007

  • A celebration of chess?
  • Prior to the match Boris Spassky said that regardless of the results the events in Reykjavik would be a "celebration of chess". Bobby Fischer on the other hand, was going to war and wanted "to...
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Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into a work of staggering magnitude. 9... more

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  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • A Stunning Work
  • This is the best history book I've ever read, it made me cringe and rage at times, and gave me nightmares but in the long run, it was an exceptionally enlightening read. It shed much light on the...
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  • Posted:Apr-05-2008

  • Makes Animal Farm Look Like a Petting Zoo, But One Big Weakness
  • The stuff that makes this book amazing:
    
    1) Searing portrayal of the horror and corruptness of Stalin's Soviet Union
    2) Top-notch prison vignettes and descriptions of human hope (and...
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  • Posted:Jan-15-2007

  • Cold War Classic!
  • This is a book of the kind of testimonies that pushed the Reagan Revolution into Europe. It's 100% pure reaganaut political propaganda, of the same brand that the neocons sold us on Iraq. It's...
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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet... more

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  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • A Stunning Work
  • This is the best history book I've ever read, it made me cringe and rage at times, and gave me nightmares but in the long run, it was an exceptionally enlightening read. It shed much light on the...
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  • Posted:Apr-05-2008

  • Makes Animal Farm Look Like a Petting Zoo, But One Big Weakness
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    1) Searing portrayal of the horror and corruptness of Stalin's Soviet Union
    2) Top-notch prison vignettes and descriptions of human hope (and...
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  • Posted:Jan-15-2007

  • Cold War Classic!
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As chief archivist of the KGB's foreign branch, Vasili Mitrokhin had virtually unfettered access to its most closely... more

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  The Sword and the Shield

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  • Posted:Dec-16-2008

  • The Mitrokhin Archive
  • An amazing story - be sure to get the second book "The World was Going Our Way." It is just as fascinating, but even more readable.
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  • Posted:Nov-18-2006

  • The KGB Archives
  • Mitrokhin & Andrews' book is just as described: an archive of information. As such, it is packed with information that the authors have tried to organize into something of a dry narrative. That...
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  • Posted:May-13-2000

  • Better read than heard
  • A lot of detail, and all of it good information. Unfortunately it should not be presented in audio format without a rewrite. It gets difficult when listening to the tape while navigating traffic...
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The 1941 Battle of Moscow--unquestionably one of the most decisive battles of World War II--marked the first... more

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  Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

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  • Posted:Jul-06-2009

  • Another Fine Study of the Battle for Moscow
  • Rodric Braithwaite served as the British ambassador to the Soviet Union during its last gasps in the early '90s. As such, his love of Moscow and its people are ever-present in this tribute to...
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  • Posted:Sep-23-2008

  • Engaging, but very detail heavy
  • As a casual reader of Second World War histories, I found Braithwaite's text a bit heavy on minutia. The writing can be quite compelling at times and at other times gets bogged down in dates,...
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  • Posted:Aug-17-2007

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  • I was very dissapointed by this book. I really expected more from someone of the author's stature, considering the opportunities he had and position he held. The subject is not only not...
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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely... more

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  Stalin

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  • Posted:Sep-18-2009

  • Stalin - hisotry of a murderous dictator
  • this was a great book on the life of stalin. the author was privy to classified documents never before release by the russians. you find out how stalin became one of the closest member of...
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  • Posted:Nov-08-2007

  • Disjointed
  • This book does have a lot of information and does provide some unique insights into the personality of Stalin, but it suffers in several ways:
    1. The author tends to jump from one time period...
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  • Posted:Oct-17-2006

  • Very biased and Anti Communist Propaganda book
  • I m not a big fan of communism, nor of Stalin. But I cross checked the facts mentioned in this book with facts in some other books I have read on similar subject and found that author Edvard...
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Original material by Ralph Raico, Edited by Wendy McElroy, Produced by Pat Childs Recent events have made it clear... more

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An astonishingly intimate portrait of the Furher-commissioned by, written for, and read by Joseph Stalin, before it... more

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  The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler's...

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  • Posted:Sep-21-2009

  • Exactly what one would expect from a dossier written for Stalin...
  • This document was prepared for Joseph Stalin by Soviet Intelligence in order to give hime, by his request, a supposedly clear picture of Hitler, his governance style and especially his last days....
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  • Posted:Mar-01-2009

  • Soviet point of view, reflected time and again; yet very interesting...
  • The book is a worthy read, overall. With that said, the reader must proceed with the caveat that the Soviet viewpoint clouds the contents and events herein. For example, the industrialists are...
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  • Posted:May-03-2007

  • Hitler's Aggression, Genocidal Actions against Slavs, and Details of His Doom
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    This dossier is the result of the interrogation, by the Soviet NKVD, of two SS officials who knew Hitler very well--Heinz Linge and Otto Gunsche. It offers a comprehensive history of WWII,...
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