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Part 1; 1. In the Beginning Were the Words; 2. Who was Lenin?; 3. Who was Trotsky?; 4. Who was Stalin?; 5. Rehearsal for a Revolution; 6. Russian Roulette; Part 2; 7. Two Shots -- 38 Million Dead; 8. Arms and the Woman; 9. The Great Retreat; 10. Letters from Hell; 11. God Help Russia!; 12. White Nights, Red Days; 13. Peace?; Part 3; 14. The Struggle for Power; 15. Enemies at the Gates; 16. Bloody Murder; 17. The Enemies Within; 18. Declaring War on the World; 19. The Inadmissible Letter; Notes

Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about is 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years. They arrested and imprisoned without trial anyone not toeing the Moscow line, earning the

Watching a D-Day film, does anyone wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commaned 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in office traitors who had run the country for Hitler. This would have sparked a civil war, but De Gaulle outwitted Washington to head the first government of liberated France. Disgusted with the professional politicians, he

Known for its austerity and discipline, deprivation and sacrifice, the French Foreign Legion is perhaps the most intriguing and famous fighting force in the world. For 170 years, jobless, homeless and loveless men have found in the Legion a sense of purpose worth all the rigors and risks of serving in the world's longest-standing mercenary army. The Legion has never had any problem attracting recruits: seven out of ten applicants are still rejected. But what draws men from so many countries and social backgrounds to accept the harsh discipline of this legendary mercenary army with a rigid nineteenth-century code of honor? Douglas Boyd tells the eventful story of the Legion from its inception in 1831 to defend France's colonial interests, to the Legion of today involved in peacekeeping and humanitarian duties worldwide, and examines the reasons behind the love-hate relationship between France and the foreigners she pays to spill their blood for her.--From publisher description