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On a field of red : the Communist International and the coming of World War II

The book is interesting, filled with various episodes of intrigue, murder, and high-stakes diplomacy, cast with familiar characters like Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, and Trotsky, and not so familiar folks like Philby, Fuchs, and untold others who spied for the Soviet Union.
On the downside, the book does grow tedious in parts, and often strays away from the Comintern completely, with several pages passing without the organization even mentioned. It also does not quite make its case that the Comintern played a pivotal role in starting World War 2.
As a general history of the tensions between Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and the UK and US, though, it's quite good. (Eric

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Series Title
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Call Number
324.175 Bro o 1
Publisher
New York : Putnam.,
Collation
718p.; bibl.;ind.; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0-399-12542-6
Classification
324.175
Edition
1
Subject(s)
Communist International
Communist of World War II
Specific Detail Info
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