Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they...
Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born ...
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick - the remarkable story of the extraordinary woman who defied her times by living as a man
A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick - the remarkable story of the extraordinary woman who defied her times by living...
"Extraordinarily touching" - The Jewish ChronicleWhen everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left. In 1938, the Nazis come to Vienna. They hate anyone who is different, especially Jewish people.
Fritz and Kurt's family are Jewish, and that puts them in terrible danger. Fritz, along with his father, is taken to a Nazi prison camp, a terrible place, full of fear. When his father is sent to a certain death, Fritz can't face losing his beloved Papa.
He chooses to go with him and fight for survival. Meanwhile, Kurt...
"Extraordinarily touching" - The Jewish ChronicleWhen everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left. In 1938, the Naz...
