Volume 4, Number 12 · July 15, 1965
Russia in Wartime
By Walter Laqueur
Russia At War 1941-1945
by Alexander Werth
Dutton, 1100 pp., $10.00
Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-1945
by Alan Clark
Morrow, 522 pp., $10.00
The War: 1941-1945
by Ilya Ehrenburg
World, 198 pp., $5.95
Alexander Werth, Mr. Ehrenburg tells us in the most recent installment of his autobiography, is a nervous, witty man who was born in St. Petersburg and speaks excellent Russian. He also retails one of Mr. Werth's jokes Ehrenburg had a Scotch terrier which had suffered from the blast of an explosion in the early days of the war As a result the dog was mortally afraid of the victory salvoes in Moscow later on in the war; as soon as the radio gave the call signal he would set up a despairing howl. Coming upon one such scene Werth said: 'Now I see he's a true British dog: he's afraid of Soviet victories.'
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