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2. Victims of Yalta by Nikolai Tolstoy
Just started, so no real opinion yet. It's about the handling of Russian prisoners of war/emigrés by the British Government. They were 'handed over' to Stalin after WWII and disappeared into Siberian exile.
I wasn't aware of this before I started this book, but it looks as if the Brits tried to cover this up. More later.
The writer is (distantly) related to the great Count Leo Tolstoy.



There were many Soviet citizens (mainly Ukrainian) who switched sides and fought for the Third Reich. Britain handed the majority of them over to Stalin,(who I believe killed most of them, either summarily or in the Gulags) but some 500 escaped to Liechtenstein and, from there, eventually to South America. I'll have to check it out.