![]() The book provides a wealth of serious and scurrilous detail, creating a memorable portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest monsters - Antony Beevor * Daily Telegraph * An outstanding book, full of surprises. This book moves with pace and authority - Michael Binyon * The Times * A gripping read. ![]() Sebag Montefiore has unearthed documents long lost in Georgian archives, found the descendants of Soso's friends and produced a vivid psychological portrait of this dangerous, alluring, enigmatic man. Brilliantly drawn - Antonia Fraser * Mail on Sunday * Magnificent. A racy, vivid biopic - Peter Conrad * Observer * This picture of Stalin as a poet is one of the revelations of Simon Sebag Montefiore's macabrely fascinating YOUNG STALIN. Dickens once or twice peeps over the biographer's shoulder. be quite so entertaining? The story Montefiore has told requires the psychological penetration and social omniscience of a great novelist. ![]() ![]() the resulting scenes of mayhem were worthy of the De Niro and Pacino film HEAT - Michael Burleigh * Sunday Telegraph * Montefiore brings Stalin to life - Vince Cable * DAILY EXPRESS * Should the life of a black-hearted ogre, a mass murderer. Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 1907 Tiflis heist. Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth. ![]()
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