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The Chamdo Raid
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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About the author
John Miller
8 booksJohn Miller (b. 1932) is a Russian-speaking British journalist and author whose career focused on the Soviet Union.
Miller collaborated on several books, including The Falklands Conflict and The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, and On The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow with Christopher Dobson.
His Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power was published in 1993.
His novel The Chamdo Raid is set in Tibet. His is the author of two local books: The Best of Southwold and Southwold in Old Photographs. His book Spunyarns about the wonderful world of a beach hut in Southwold, appeared in December 2012.
Published in May 2010 by Hodgson Press, All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings is a personal story about the vanished world of the USSR. For more than 40 years the USSR. was the centre of John Miller’s working life as a foreign correspondent. He went to the Soviet Union at the height of the East-West Cold War and some of the most prominent stories of the 20th century such as the Great Spy Game, the U-2 drama, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred while he was reporting there. The book contains details of everyday life in the Soviet Union such as shortages, dealing with the KGB as well as with bedbugs and cockroaches, censorship, living in a Moscow flat with a rabbit called Floppy, drunkenness, dissidents and death.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Miller collaborated on several books, including The Falklands Conflict and The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, and On The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow with Christopher Dobson.
His Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power was published in 1993.
His novel The Chamdo Raid is set in Tibet. His is the author of two local books: The Best of Southwold and Southwold in Old Photographs. His book Spunyarns about the wonderful world of a beach hut in Southwold, appeared in December 2012.
Published in May 2010 by Hodgson Press, All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings is a personal story about the vanished world of the USSR. For more than 40 years the USSR. was the centre of John Miller’s working life as a foreign correspondent. He went to the Soviet Union at the height of the East-West Cold War and some of the most prominent stories of the 20th century such as the Great Spy Game, the U-2 drama, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred while he was reporting there. The book contains details of everyday life in the Soviet Union such as shortages, dealing with the KGB as well as with bedbugs and cockroaches, censorship, living in a Moscow flat with a rabbit called Floppy, drunkenness, dissidents and death.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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