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Nora & John: The Russian Love Story. (A spy story book)

Nora & John: The Russian Love Story. (A spy story book) - Paperback

by Nora Murray, John Murray
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nora Murray, John MurrayTheme:Chronological Period/1940's, Cultural Region/Russian, Sex & Gender/FemininePublish date:10/25/2017Pages:402
Languages:EnglishPublisher:GB Publishing OrgISBN-13:9781912031672ISBN-10:1912031671UPC:9781912031672Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, DramaBook Subcategory:Women, Russian & Soviet, Women AuthorsSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SC48WG25GH

THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: "Narrative that is direct, candid, unpretentious.

Cold War Best Seller Autobiography

The Full True Story of Joseph Stalin's young 'mozho', spy, Nora Murray

A young cold war 'mozho' girl's best seller autobiography. Nora became that spy when Joseph Stalin's brutal secret police wrecked her privileged childhood, making her homeless with the loss of friends, mother and then father. Utterly alone, good times in the Ukraine over and made to consort with British diplomats, she fell in love amidst Nazi Germany's WWII invasion of Moscow and her struggle to catch up and escape together, inexplicably sanctioned by Stalin's wife, on the last boat out.

A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society... reduced to a 'mozho' girl mixing with foreigners, with instructions to report on them... the real story is in the simple, graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations - some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome."

In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap, or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees.

Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target, John Murray, a British Embassy cypher in Moscow.

As two disparate lives intertwine, their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands, clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.

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spy story book; war survivor; cold war spy; war spy; soviet drama; war drama; stalin regime

Languages:EnglishPublisher:GB Publishing OrgISBN-13:9781912031672ISBN-10:1912031671UPC:9781912031672Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, DramaBook Subcategory:Women, Russian & Soviet, Women AuthorsSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SC48WG25GH
Murray, John: - John Murray born of Greek/Irish parents and brought up in Edwardian England soon found himself working in Latvia. Having achieved a commercial education at Pitman's College he was put in charge of managing a cigarette factory. Later, he became its owner while also running an import export business in the Baltic States. As war loomed large in Europe his fortunes changed. He was called upon to work for the British Government eventually finding himself as a cypher in the British Embassy, Moscow. During this time, John a highly insightful self-made individual succumbed to the entreaties of a desperate human being and found himself engulfed in the intricacies of Soviet WWII espionage and counter-intelligence.Murray, Nora: - Nora's métier was writing and as such she felt at one with the tools of that trade. Forever writing letters and making entries in her diary, a consummate Lady of Letters, her book would allow her to express her distaste for totalitarian regimes and the love of Mother Russia. Nora was a bubbly intelligent optimist who throughout her life would find the best in people. With her indomitable Russian spirit she would never take 'no' for an answer; enabling her, in overcoming insurmountable obstacles, to escape and survive the devastations of her war torn country.
Publisher: GB Publishing Org

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Nora Murray, John Murray

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Nora Murray, John Murray

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