The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Beevor, Antony

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143035961)

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The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Beevor, Antony

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

$24.00
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Beevor, Antony

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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In his latest work, Antony Beevor--bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II--brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev to become a Soviet spy--a career she spent her entire postwar life denying. The riveting story of how Olga and her family survived the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and the Second World War becomes, in Beevor's hands, a breathtaking tale of survival in a merciless age.

Author: Antony Beevor
ISBN-10: 0143035967
ISBN-13: 9780143035961
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.54w x 0.73d
By Antony Beevor
By Antony Beevor
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Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942--1943; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944--1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.

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