The Mystery of Olga Chekhova : A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War

Resumen del libro

Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a stunning Russian beauty. She was also a famous Nazi-era film actress, closely associated with Adolf Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev to work for Soviet intelligence.

In return, her family were allowed to join her. Several of them were trapped in Berlin as the Red Army approached in 1945. As Olga had appeared in photographs with Hitler his entourage, the rest of her family in Moscow were waiting to be arrested by the NKVD secret police.

Based largely on new material, Antony Beevor has pieced together a breathtaking story of a family surviving through the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, the rise of Hitler and Stalin, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. It's an extraordinary story from extraordinary times.

Biografía del autor

Antony Beevor, educado en Winchester y Sandhurst, fue oficial regular del ejército británico. Abandonó el ejército tras cinco años de servicio y se trasladó a París, donde escribió su primera novela. Sus ensayos, traducidos a más de treinta idiomas y publicados en castellano por Crítica, han sido galardonados con varios premios, especialmente Stalingrado (2000), merecedor del Samuel Johnson Prize, el Wolfson History Prize y el Hawthornden Prize, y Berlín. La caída, 1945 (2002), que han conocido una docena de ediciones en castellano. Otras obras del autor son La batalla de Creta (2002), ganadora del Runciman Prize, París después de la liberación (1944-1949) (2003), El misterio de Olga Chejova (2004), La guerra civil española (2005), Un escritor en guerra. Vassili Grossman en el ejército ruso, 1944-1945 (2006) y El Día D. La batalla de Normandía (2009).