ALEXANDER ORLOV
F Bi's KGB General
by Edward Gazur
During 1938 at the height of the Spanish civil war , three star soviet general Orlov disappeared. He lived secretly for years in the US hiding from both the KGB and the FBI .In 1953 he came in from the cold and became and still is the highest ranking soviet intelligence officer ever to defect to the west. He brought with him the damning truth about Stalin's purges and the truth behind the communist regime. Who was this master spy? Was the man who revealed from released KGB files in the 1994 book titled,' deadly illusions' ? Gazur , veteran in east European counter espionage was assigned to Orlov in1971 and grew to know him and his wife maria well. He spent many hours talking to Orlov about his life and past encounters. He strongly believes Orlov had been unjustifiably maligned in the in the book on the basis of KGB disinformation. Gazur had kept silent after Orlov's death and now he felt that he had to put his side. This book is a narrative of his life based on the intimate conversations with Gazur.
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As meat loves salt
AS MEAT LOVES SALT
by Maria McCann
An Economist: 'Book of the year'.
This remarkable first novel recreates Cromwellian England in a way that few readers will forget.
Torn in two by the vicious civil war , this is an England of extra ordinary, never before seen bloody violence.
Among the soldiers traveling across the ravaged country from one battle to the next is Jacob Cullen, a former servant who dreams of a new life after the war.
However living as the new model army was living did unexpected things to many men, and he finds him self drawn into an obsession with Ferris, a fellow fighter. At a time this type of thing is a hanging offense, the men dessert from Cromwell's army, even that too a similarly punishable act.
McCann's depiction of an England beset by war , the gore, terror, and horrors of the battle field and the harrowing tale of the men on the edge of madness are by turns compelling and shocking. We feel the blood, sweat and tears of the protagonists and the disturbing images she unveils will linger in the memory.
A wrenching thriller, which describes individuals' madness in a nation gone mad.
by Maria McCann
An Economist: 'Book of the year'.
This remarkable first novel recreates Cromwellian England in a way that few readers will forget.
Torn in two by the vicious civil war , this is an England of extra ordinary, never before seen bloody violence.
Among the soldiers traveling across the ravaged country from one battle to the next is Jacob Cullen, a former servant who dreams of a new life after the war.
However living as the new model army was living did unexpected things to many men, and he finds him self drawn into an obsession with Ferris, a fellow fighter. At a time this type of thing is a hanging offense, the men dessert from Cromwell's army, even that too a similarly punishable act.
McCann's depiction of an England beset by war , the gore, terror, and horrors of the battle field and the harrowing tale of the men on the edge of madness are by turns compelling and shocking. We feel the blood, sweat and tears of the protagonists and the disturbing images she unveils will linger in the memory.
A wrenching thriller, which describes individuals' madness in a nation gone mad.
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