1978, ISBN: 0684156350

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[EAN: 9780684156354], [PU: NY. 1977. Charles Scribner's Sons], Jacket, black hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & t… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780684156354], [PU: NY. 1977. Charles Scribner's Sons], Jacket, black hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. faint dust spots on top edge. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. scratch on the rear, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). Note: published in England as "Victims Of Yalta". endpaper maps. 503p. notes. notes to the u.s. edition. index. world history. world war ii. russian history. american history. english history. covert operations. secret societies. conspiracy theory. ~ By the end of the Second World War, nearly six million Russians were stranded in Germany. Some had been imported by the Nazis for slave labor, some were prisoners of war, some were anti~Communist fighters in German uniform, and there were many women and children. Of the total, over three million were in territories overrun by the Western Allies. By a secret agreement made between Eden and Molotov in 1944 in Moscow, and confirmed by Churchill and Stalin in 1945 at Yalta, these people were condemned to be sent back without choice to the USSR ~ which meant, for vast numbers, to such hell~camps as Vorkuta in the Arctic Circle. The victims were aware of what lay ahead. Their efforts to escape their fate included many attempted suicides. The Secret Betrayal presents new facts about this forced and tragic repatriation. Owing to the restraints of the British thirty~year rule on state papers, no historian before Nikolai Tolstoy has been able to see documents extending from the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 to the end of 1946. These constitute the evidence for half the period in question and are clearly essential for a full understanding of the story. In addition, many surviving participants who occupied key positions have now been interviewed for the first time, and in many cases their testimony seriously alters the accepted picture. Fully three~quarters of the material of this book has never before appeared in print. The circumstances that led many Russians to fall into the hands of the Germans; repatriation operations conducted from Norway, North Africa, France, Belgium, Holland, and neutral countries; the question of British and American infraction of the Geneva Convention; the Soviet side of operations conducted by the NKVD and SMERSH; the fortunes and fate of General Vlasov and his Russian Army of Liberation; the fate of the returned Russians in general ~all these are for the first time described in detail. The book also tackles thevital question of whether the repatriation was necessary at all and produces strong arguments to suggest that it was not. This is a disturbing and deeply felt book, in which events are brought to life through the narratives of individuals and a proper indignation is tempered by pity and humor. The cast of characters is huge ~ from Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin down to the lowliest Cossack trooper. The story remains very much a living issue ~ a lesson, among other things, in the pros and cons of detente. And the overriding themes of barbarity and betrayal are as significant for us today as they were at the end of the war. Nikolai Tolstoy is the heir to the senior line of the Tolstoy family and a relative of the great novelist. He is married, with two young daughters, and lives in England., Books<

ISBN: 9780684156354

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