Graham Lyons has taken the two main textbooks used in the senior forms of Russian secondary schools and here presents, in direct translation, the story of the War as seen through Russian eyes. Anyone remotely familiar with 'history' as taught on the western side of the Iron Curtain will read with bemused fascination of the 'real' origins of the Second World War, of the 'true' meaning of the Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact, of why the Russians stopped before Warsaw - and so on, and so on. But why indeed should one version be any more 'true' than the other? This fascinating book not only presents the other side of the coin but poses the much deeper question of the true meaning of the evidently much-abused word 'history'.
Its absence from your bookshelves could mean a lack of depth and reality in your view of world- shaking events.
Hamish Wilson PHOENIX MAGAZINE
An interesting and well-conceived compilation
John Terraine PUNCH
An entirely worthwhile enterprise.
Tony Howarth TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
The reader is in for some pretty severe shocks.
Stephen Roskill SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Its absence from your bookshelves could mean a lack of depth and reality in your view of world- shaking events.
Hamish Wilson PHOENIX MAGAZINE
An interesting and well-conceived compilation
John Terraine PUNCH
An entirely worthwhile enterprise.
Tony Howarth TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
The reader is in for some pretty severe shocks.
Stephen Roskill SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
