On a June night in 1941 a German monitoring station at Kranz in East Prussia picked up the first strains of the tune. It was played by a lone 'pianist' on a clandestine radio set. But as the months passed, the soloist was joined by others from cities all across Nazi-occupied Europe, and even from Berlin itself, until the night air was filled with the sounds of the Red Orchestra. This astonishing Russian espionage apparatus was directed by a no-less astonishing Polish Jew named Leopold Trepper. The story of their complex operations reads like the deadliest, most fascinating kind of spy novel.
An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing...
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