THE MAISKY DIARIES: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's 1932-1943.
Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready. Pp. xlviii+584, text illustrations, index; thick med. 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2015. First edition. *Selections from the previously unpublished diary of the Soviet ambassador to London in the 1930s and 40s. 'Grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Churchill's rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front' [wrapper blurb]. Item #178792
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