{"product_id":"the-red-hotel-the-untold-story-of-stalins-disinformation-war-9781035401314","title":"The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edouard Manceau\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hachette UK\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Headline\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Western Europe - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE RED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, former \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForeign Editor and Russian expert \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlan Philps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both bullied and pampered in a gilded cage of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMetropol Hotel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile some of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told for the first time. With a riveting narrative very much in the same wheelhouse as Ben McIntyre's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAgent Sonya\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e this revelatory story will finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control what the western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette UK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47292108898455,"sku":"9781035401314","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781035401314.webp?v=1773398703","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-red-hotel-the-untold-story-of-stalins-disinformation-war-9781035401314","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}