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Nora & John The Russian Love Story
Nora & John The Russian Love Story
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Binding: Paperback
Description: Times Literary Supplement: Narrative that is direct candid unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society reduced to a mozho girl mixing with foreigners with instructions to report on them the real story is in the simple graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome. In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21 - year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees. Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target John Murray a British Embassy cypher in Moscow. As two disparate lives intertwine their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.
Title: Nora & John The Russian Love Story
Author(s): Murray John
Publisher: Gb Publishing Org
Barcode: 9781912031672
Pages: 402 Pages, 37 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/25/2017
Category: True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
Description: Times Literary Supplement: Narrative that is direct candid unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society reduced to a mozho girl mixing with foreigners with instructions to report on them the real story is in the simple graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome. In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21 - year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees. Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target John Murray a British Embassy cypher in Moscow. As two disparate lives intertwine their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.
Title: Nora & John The Russian Love Story
Author(s): Murray John
Publisher: Gb Publishing Org
Barcode: 9781912031672
Pages: 402 Pages, 37 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/25/2017
Category: True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival