Book description
Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film
actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of
Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she
was recruited by her composer brother Lev, to work for Soviet
intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to join her. The
extraordinary story of how the whole family survived the Russian
Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and
the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor's hands,
a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age.
Antony Beevor has published several novels, and his works of non-fiction
include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance;
Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall 1945 which was a number one
bestseller. With his wife, Artemis Cooper he wrote Paris: After the
Liberation 1945 - 1949, now issued in a new edition. He lives in London.
