Walter Ciszek, S.J. Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under cover, in constant danger of death. He heard confession of hundreds who could have betrayed him; he aided spiritually many who could have gained by exposing him. This is a remarkable story of personal experience.  It would be difficult to write fiction that could honestly portray the heroic patience, endurance, fortitude and complete trust in God lived by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J. "A man of invincible faith and heroic fortitude, who is sustained by a great love for God and his fellow man. His story is highly recommended as a worthwhile reading experience for one and all." - Best Sellers "...an incisive portrayal of the struggle for existence in a Russian prison camp. The very simplicity of presentation makes it unforgettable." - Louisville Times

    Himself an eyewitness to the shattering historical drama he vividly records, Werth offers an intensely detailed chronicle of the events that exceeded in savagery and hatred any other on Russian soil. From the hardships of the citizenry to the sweep of massive military operations to the corridors of diplomacy, this modern classic captures every aspect of the grim but heroic Soviet-German war that turned Russia into the most powerful nation in the Old World.

    Donovan began his walk toward the center of the Glienicke Bridge, the famous “Bridge of Spies” which then linked West Berlin to East. With him, walked Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, master spy and for years the chief of Soviet espionage in the United States. Approaching them from the other side, under equally heavy guard, was Francis Gary Powers, the American U-2 spy plane pilot famously shot down by the Soviets, whose exchange for Abel Donovan had negotiated. These were the strangers on a bridge, men of East and West, representatives of two opposed worlds meeting in a moment of high drama.Abel was the most gifted, the most mysterious, the most effective spy in his time. His trial, which began in a Brooklyn United States District Court and ended in the Supreme Court of the United States, chillingly revealed the methods and successes of Soviet espionage.No one was better equipped to tell the whole absorbing history than James B. Donovan, who was appointed to defend one of his country’s enemies and did so with scrupulous skill. In Strangers on a Bridge, the lead prosecutor in the Nuremburg Trials offers a clear-eyed and fast-paced memoir that is part procedural drama, part dark character study and reads like a noirish espionage thriller. From the first interview with Abel to the exchange on the bridge in Berlin—and featuring unseen photographs of Donovan and Abel as well as trial notes and sketches drawn from Abel’s prison cell—here is an important historical narrative that is “as fascinating as it is exciting” (The Houston Chronicle).

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    Yet ninety years after his death this remains the only complete biography ever published in the English language. It has now been updated and revised with a new preface and bibliography, together with revised and additional endnotes, by Scott M. Kenworthy.All together these reveal a picture of a man whom no one expected to be chosen as Patriarch. Nevertheless he humbly accepted the call of God and the people to guide the Church during the most turbulent of times as it faced both internal upheavals and external persecution. As he said in his speech immediately following his election as Patriarch in 1917, “…I am entrusted with the care for all the Russian churches, and what awaits me is the gradual dying for them all my days.”Both specialists and general readers will become better acquainted with St Tikhon through this modest but carefully crafted monograph.

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    With the appearance of each succeeding volume of his widely heralded memoirs it has become increasingly clear that he is engaged in writing more than a record of an extraordinary life: He is seeking to reveal to his people heretofore suppressed elements of Russian history - both as a lesson and as a warning.The present volume, covering the years 1941-1945, is even less a personal document than its predecessors. The vast impersonality of war colors its pages; individual human beings move in the shadows of momentous events.As an immensely popular roving war correspondent for the newspaper Red Star, Ehrenburg witnessed at close hand the suffering and the heroism of the Russian people. His portrayal of the Russian war effort is marked by intense patriotic pride. But his vivid depiction of the near panic that gripped the country during the initial German onslaught represents a bitter condemnation of the purges that decimated the ranks of Soviet soldiers and intellectuals and left the reins of leadership in the hands of inept bureaucrats.Especially noteworthy are his striking wartime vignettes of such major figures as Churchill and de Gaulle - and, of course, Ehrenburg's treatment of Stalin himself - a treatment that is circumspect but unmistakably sardonic as Ehrenburg assesses the figure who for so long loomed titanlike in the Russian consciousness.Written with the novelist's gift of phrase and sense of dramatic incident, this segment of Ehrenburg's memoirs takes its place in a work that ranks among the most significant of our time. In the words of Harrison Salisbury: "Ehrenburg...is creating as important and fascinating a document as has emerged from the U.S.S.R."