THE STALIN AFFAIR

Delivered with flamboyance it features a sparkling cast of chancers KATJA HOYER Daily Telegraph 5 review Page turning a sizzling high stakes tale JAMES HOLLAND This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie yet every word is accurate and verified ANDREW ROBERTS Giles Milton is a phenomenon DAN SNOW Another rollercoaster ride from Giles Milton Endlessly surprising ANTHONY HOROWITZ From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies secret mission to wartime Moscow In the summer of 1941 as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union Stalin s forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies liberation of Europe virtually impossible To avert this disaster Britain and America mobilized an elite team of remarkable diplomats with the mission of keeping the Red Army in the war Into to the heart of Stalin s Moscow Roosevelt sent Averell Harriman the fourth richest man in America and his brilliant young daughter Kathy Churchill dispatched the reckless but brilliant bon vivant Archie Clark Kerr and occasionally himself to negotiate with the Kremlin s wiliest operators Together this improbable group grappled with the ingenious mercurial Stalin to make victory possib