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...Time of the Assassins, by God frey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms -the SS kind and the NKVD kind- in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-the 55 kind and the NKVD kind-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-the SS kind and the NKVD kind-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Ukrainian professor dreaming of the purity of his suppressed native language while he entertains homeless orphans with fantasies of great feasts: an eleven-year-old Ukrainian girl who volunteers as a spy for the Nazis; an SS general, coldly calculating even in defeat, who traps the collaborating schoolteachers of Kharkov, and delivers them to the mercies of the Russians...
Blunden, a TIME foreign-news writer who spent 14 months in Russia for the London Evening Standard and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and entered Kharkov immediately after it was liberated by the Red Army, knows his facts and his scene. Five years ago he published A Room on the Route (TIME, March 3, 1947), one of the best fictional portraits of Stalinist terror ever written. By comparison, The Time of the Assassins is diffuse, but it is still a gripping novel in its own right...