β Scribed by Alan Sillitoe
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK's most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold Warβera Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in his sturdy Peugeot. During his teens, the author had a cartographic fascination with the Battle of Stalingrad, and decades later he is still armed with intricate maps of the country based on British military intelligence, including one of the road from Leningrad to Moscow to Kiev, which he drew himself. Also in tow are a prismatic compass, binoculars, and a shortwave radio receiver. However, despite being so well prepared, Sillitoe embarks with naivetΓ© about the political precariousness of an Englishman in the eyes of the Soviet regime.
After passing through the endless days of a Scandinavian summer and a prolonged stop at a border control...
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