The Mystery of Olga Chekhova - The True Story of a Family Torn Apart by Revolution and War

Informationen zum Autor Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall , The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017. Klappentext Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends. This is the story of how Olga and her family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Beevor
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2005
• EAN: 9780141017648
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101764-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, Individual actors & performers, True stories: general, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Individual actors and performers