From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and little-known operations of WW2
Serhii Plokhy is the author of Chernobyl- History of a Tragedy, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Pushkin House Book Prize, and the New York Times bestseller The Gates of Europe. His many acclaimed books, including The Russo-Ukrainian War, Nuclear Folly and Atoms and Ashes, have been translated into over a dozen languages. He is Professor of History at Harvard University where he also serves as Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Plokhy is an expert guide, marshalling the archival and memoir
material skilfully and telling his story with flair
*The Times*
Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World
War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern
Front is a rare exception. . . Plokhy is at his best when he turns
to the human level, the culture clash experienced by US servicemen
finding themselves inside Stalin's USSR under constant surveillance
from the secret police
*Prospect*
Serhii Plokhy's fascinating account of American airmen operating in
the Soviet Union toward the end of WWII is not only superb history.
It is an important and timely reminder, seventy five years later,
that victory in WWII involved allying with Stalinism and all its
attendant evils
*Alex Kershaw, author of The First Wave*
A riveting read that brings together a unique story about American
airmen on Soviet territory and US-Soviet wartime politics on the
highest level. Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and key events in World
War II diplomacy are seamlessly woven into a compelling tale of the
dramatic feats and fates of US servicemen in contact and conflict
with their Soviet male and female 'comrades in arms.' At once
utterly absorbing, enlightening and moving, this splendid book also
unearths absolutely original evidence about the values wars that
launched the Cold War even as the hot one was raging
*Nina Tumarkin, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area
Studies, Wellesley College*
A new and enlightening perspective on the collaboration between
Soviet and American airmen in Ukraine during their mutual fight
against the Nazis, taking the reader onto the airbases to show how
cultural differences and the oppressive political oversight of the
Russians ate away at the effort from early on. Using detailed
accounts not previously available, Forgotten Bastards of the
Eastern Front shows how the interpersonal relationships of
Americans and Soviets at ground level were as important as any
maneuvering by their country's leaders. An insightful account of a
little-known story
*Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500*
Five stars. . . brilliantly researched
*Daily Telegraph*
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