Antony Beevors The Mystery of Olga Chekhova" is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution & war. Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty & a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. 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. The extraordinary story of how the whole family survived the Russian Revolution the civil war the rise of Hitler the Stalinist Terror & the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes in Antony Beevors hands a breathtaking tale of compromise & survival in a merciless age. "A fascinating spy story a delicious entertainment a compelling investigation". (" Evening Standard"). " An extraordinary drama of exile & espionage". (" Independent"). " Compelling.. .as engaging a read as Stalingrad & Berlin". (" Guardian"). Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad which won the Samuel Johnson Prize the Wolfson Prize for History & the Hawthornden Prize for Literature & Berlin which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies."