Books by Peter Finn and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. Pantheon, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-90800-1
In brisk and thrilling fashion, Washington Post national security editor Finn and Saint Petersburg State University instructor Couvée take readers into the world of Soviet intelligentsia and shadowy Cold War politics to study how Boris Pasternak...
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Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, read by Simon Vance. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $34.95 ISBN 978-1-62231-436-2
Finn, an editor at the Washington Post who was the paper’s Moscow bureau chief, and Couvée, a writer who teaches at Saint Petersburg State University, offer a detailed account of the events leading up to the 1956 publication of Doctor Zhivago, the...
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Peter Finn. Pantheon, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4733-6
Finn (coauthor, The Zhivago Affair), national security editor at the Washington Post, keenly draws a portrait of the wartime derring-do of Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre (1902–2000), socialite, heiress, and teenage big-game hunter who inspired the...
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