Anthony Neil Austin

The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev (Annals of Communism)

Dmitrii Shepilov (1905-1995), a prominent Soviet leader and member of the Communist Party elite, rose to power under Joseph Stalin in the 1940s and 1950s, then fell into political disgrace after being implicated in a coup attempt against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. In this remarkable memoir, Shepilov...

The President's War: the Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation Was Trapped in Vietnam

In Search of a Father

IN SEARCH OF A FATHER...Why the need to begin a search after so many years of never knowing that person or his location? What were the circumstances of his disappearance? Did he die in a war? Or was he alive? What kind of a guy was or is he? Read how the journey begins. And the self-doubt about the ...

Mother Shipton: The Missing Prophecies

Mother Shipton, alias Ursula Sonthiel is generally supposed to have been the second greatest English seeress, after the legendary Merlin, but it is certain that her prophecies were added to in the 19th century by a Mr Charles Hindley. The problem of authenticity grew more puzzling with the publicati...

Russian Light

Born of Russian émigré parents in Harbin, Manchuria, Anthony Austin grew up in Shanghai, then consisting of an International Settlement and French Concession, pieces of China under colonial foreign rule. Graduating from an American missionary grammar school and a British high school he worked as a r...

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

The main architect of the concept of perestroika under Gorbachev, Alexander N. Yakovlev played a unique role in the transformation of the Soviet Union. Now, drawing on his own experiences and on his privileged access to state and Party archives, he reflects on the evils of the system that shaped the...

No Jail for Thought

London published Biography

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

To Be Preserved Forever

Mother Shipton: The Missing Prophecies

Draco - the Tenth Planet

The Sand-Whales of Mars: A Pictorial Survey of the Martian Zoo