{"product_id":"the-red-hotel-by-alan-philps-9781035401338","title":"The Red Hotel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (Five-Star Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A tale of intrigue and suppression' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly told' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An engaging and insightful account of foreign correspondents living in the Moscow landmark during the Second World War' \u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReporters. Translators. Lovers. Spies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War\u003c\/i\u003e, former \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Foreign Editor and Russia expert Alan Philps 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 the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. 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\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850374992108,"sku":"9781035401338","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17534143482556.jpg?v=1759084946","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-red-hotel-by-alan-philps-9781035401338","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}