Harold Shukman: 3 books

Book cover of Secret Classrooms

Secret Classrooms

An Untold Story of the Cold War

by Geoffrey Elliott, Harold Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

'Here is a vivacious account of how in the 1950s, under Eden and Lloyd at the Foreign Office, some 5,000 young men doing national service were quietly siphoned off from their units, secluded in Cornwall and Fifeshire, or, more boldly, next door to the Guards depot at Coulsdon in Surrey, and put through...
Book cover of Stalin
by Harold Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

Stalin was one of the most rulthless and authoritarian dictators in world history. This concise title presents Lenin's heir from his beginnings for priesthood to General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Book cover of Rasputin

Rasputin

An Introduction

by Harold Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Accessible and authoritative, this biography covers the truth behind the shadowy figure of Gregory Rasputin. Rasputin features in Russian history as a malign and destructive force, a man with an unhealthy influence on the Empress Alexandra and undue power in Russian politics. Yet his purposes were...
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