Book Review: Red Sky at Noon, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

What happens when a scrawny Jewish intellectual political prisoner is offered an escape from the Stalinist Gulag in exchange for fighting against the Nazis. It's a wild ride!
Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
Historical Fiction & Business Author, World Traveler & Speaker
What happens when a scrawny Jewish intellectual political prisoner is offered an escape from the Stalinist Gulag in exchange for fighting against the Nazis. It's a wild ride!
An immigrant story with a twist: they left Russia aiming to get to America but landed in Cuba. I highly recommend this eminently readable story of struggle and hopes for a better life in a new land.
Not all women of the 1950s were willing to settle back into non-career life. Learn the story behind the spies who helped launch Doctor Zhivago to fame.
You get a different sense of history when you read old newspapers instead of just history books.
Written in 1940 about Stalinist Russia, Darkness at Noon contains a chilling explanation of the recent trend towards authoritarianism in much of the world. I give it 5 stars.