The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

A fascinating spy story, a delicious entertainment, a compelling investigation

Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Evening Standard

An extraordinary drama of exile and espionage

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

Compelling . . . as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin

Guardian

Beevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, The Times

Fascinating. An intricate, gracefully told and often moving social history of a talented family in times of revolution, civil war, dictatorship and world conflict

Rachel Polonsky, New Statesman

Antony Beevor, one of the finest narrative military historians now writing, is a master of revealing vignettes

Eliot A. Cohen, New York Times

A true story that is dramatic, evocative, and well worth unearthing

Observer