Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker

Acknowledgements

This is the story of the war as I saw it, from the battle for Moscow to the last days in Hitler’s bunker, and Stalin’s efforts to rewrite history to his own ends.

I am profoundly grateful to Yelena Kostyukovich, who took this book to an Italian publisher and kept an eye on how it was faring, just when her own amazing book, Food: Italian Happiness, was being published to international acclaim (and meeting with great success in Moscow). She continued with unflagging attentiveness to advise and comment on my book during its final stages.

Thank you also for help and support as I worked on the book to my friend and discussant, my granddaughter Lyuba.