Timothy Phillips (1)
Auteur de Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Timothy Phillips, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Timothy Phillips
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Northern Ireland, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Northern Ireland, UK
London, England, UK - Études
- Oxford University (Ph.D. ∙ Russian)
University of Helsinki - Professions
- translator
- Agent
- Veronique Baxter
Membres
Critiques
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along…
An interesting journey tracing the route of the now disappeared Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall. The author finds some interesting little anomalies like the nudist beach on the Baltic coast right up against the East German border fence and the huge block of flats on the outskirts of Bratislava with balconies overlooking the border with Austria. A good read.
Timothy Phillips has written a gripping account of the secret war between the British intelligence services and the Bolsheviks during the 1920s. Based largely on documents he unearthed in the National Archives, this is a story about far Right politicians (including some open fascists) working hand in hand with security services to combat (with rather limited success) a sometimes-real and sometimes-imaginary "Red Menace". The Zinoviev Letter, the one part of the story with which I was already familiar, gets good coverage, but it turns out to be only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. A great story.… (plus d'informations)
Listes
Review 4 (1)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 72
- Popularité
- #243,043
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 8