The next 'must' read on my summer list is:
"THE COURT OF THE RED CZAR" by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
This is a vivid, riveting account of Joesph Stalin and his courtiers; killers, fanatics, black-hearted thugs, women and children in the decades of his supreme power.
In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, Montefiore gives us everyday detail of the life of a monster. A monster who plays his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners in Black Sea villas and in the apartments at the Kremlin.
We witness first hand how this megalomaniac carried out his terrifying purges against friend and foe alike and how their families lived in a secret world of fear, betrayal, murder and sexual degeneracy.
Montefiore gives an unprecedented insight into Stalin... the man, the human being and the beast.
Read this book and you will thank God that you were born with the blessings of the gospel message instead of communism and that, after fifty years, the West won the Cold War.
Jubilate.
Ian
No comments:
Post a Comment