One of America's great historians.

Pipes is not a mere communicator of facts but a philosopher examining the deeper, broader trends beneath the surface of history.

Brilliant... enchanting

Moving, perceptive and sharply observed...the journal is a valuable addition not just to the canon of wartime and holocaust literature, but to that of all humanity

'A splendidly honest and vividly detailed venture into some of history's darkest corners-by a novelist who is also a superb reporter'

This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial revolution, and as such it is highly important for any Western reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that revolution

The most comprehensive look at the work of these intrepid sailors . . . A celebration of their ingenuity and valor

Reads like an adventure novel, but it's all to real

The veterans of the 'Silent Service' are silent no more