The File on the Tsar
Author(s): Anthony Summers
The world was told that the last Tsar of Russia and his family were butchered in the 'cellar massacre' at Ekaterinburg in 1918. Yet diplomats and reporters did not believe it. And the longest court case of the century failed to explode Anna Anderson's claim to be the Tsar's youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold spent five years tracking down witnesses and long-lost documents. The search led to Moscow, Tokyo and Washington and their persistence finally paid off when they found a suppressed official dossier - the File on the Tsar. It shows that the public was fed a lie. The Romanovs did not all die at Ekaterinburg, but became pawns in an international power game, involving Lenin, the Kaiser, the British Royal Family and British Intelligence. And in London, over 80 years later, the cover-up goes on.
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New edition of the classic the Number One bestseller Revised and updated for the 2002 edition The fate of the last Tsar of Russia is a subject of perennial interest 'A superb, real-life unputdownable mystery' Len Deighton 'Sensational ... a masterful work of great suspense' COSMOPOLITAN 'Totally fascinating ... Sleuths Mangold and Summers have done for the Tsar what Woodward and Bernstein did for Watergate' Ludovic Kennedy 'Demolishes the massacre story beyond recovery. There is not a dull page' SUNDAY TIMES
Anthony Summers formerly covered wars and other world new events for the BBC. He has written five previous books, including Goddess, a best-selling biography of Marilyn Monroe, and Conspiracy, an acclaimed study of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Summers lives in Ireland with his wife and principal colleague, Robbyn Swan. He has four sons and a daughter. Tom Mangold has been a senior investigative reporter and war correspondent for BBC TV News and Current Affairs for thirty years and has won numerous awards for his work. He is the author of four bestselling books (THE FILE ON THE TSAR, THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI, COLD WARRIOR and PLAGUE WARS). He is married and lives in West London.
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.34
- : 07 November 2002
- : 198mm X 129mm X 31mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anthony Summers
- : Paperback
- : 947.083
- : 444
- : Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours; European history: from c 1900 -
- : 12 B/W Photo\Illu(s)