Bøker av Conor O'Clery

The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin.

History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. This title focuses on the fall of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.

The curious life of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, now substantially updated with a fascinating coda