Comrade Stalin Changed His Haircut

About the Book

Three months to go before the VE-Day, and a new world order is shaping in the aftermath of WWII. Winston Churchill, an Arab king, Soviet Jewish notables everyone has a passionate view of his own as regards a Jewish State about to emerge. But it is the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, who has the final say. Hordes of Kremlin scholars are busy with documentation of Stalin’s project. A spurious linguistic theory, some ancient texts, and Martin Luther’s pamphlet of 1529 are put to good use. The action shifts from the Kremlin to Carnegie Hall to the Soviet-German frontline in East Prussia, before it settles on the Yalta Conference of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. The far-reaching provocation augurs ill for both the defeated Germans and the Soviet Jews, and it may bring the world on the brink of a new war. Will Stalin’s decision sound the death toll to Israel, as yet unborn?

Soviet Artillery Major David Kovner gets in trouble rescuing German civilians from marauding troops. Back in Moscow, he becomes privy to Stalin’s secret project. David refuses to join. He is bent on upsetting Stalin’s plans. But first he has to rescue from his exile in Central Asia an ethnic German, Max Ebert, who holds the key to the success of David’s venture. Together, they penetrate the security of the Yalta Conference. But all doesn’t go as planned, and a catastrophe looms large. Then Sarah Churchill talks her father into getting involved closer than he would have liked to...

An old Vienna song provides a mocking accompaniment to this tongue-in-cheek thriller mixing suspense and the grotesque...