Books by Boris Volodarsky
“This is an absolute masterpiece. It started out as an LSE PhD, supervised by Paul Preston, because a lot of the book deals with the Spanish Civil War. It wasn’t so much the story of Alexander Orlov—his pseudonym and the actual subject of the book—that fascinated me, so much as the story about all the NKVD people that Stalin dispatched to the Spanish Civil War, basically to murder people, dissidents on the Republican side, and indeed any captured nationalists. Orlov was just one of them.” Read more...
The best books on Assassinations
Michael Burleigh, Historian
Interviews where books by Boris Volodarsky were recommended
The best books on Assassinations, recommended by Michael Burleigh
From Julius Caesar to Jamal Khashoggi, assassinations often seem earth-shattering in their consequences. But, as historian Michael Burleigh explains, those consequences are rarely the ones the assassins intended. Here, he recommends the best books on assassinations and the assassins who carry them out, including the role of drones and PR agencies.
