In this captivating and immersive book, Nora and John Murray reflect on and describe their incredible lives - both together and apart in Stalin's Russia. Nora and John is the combined memoirs of two individuals who were thrown together in tumultuous and terrifying times, and how they were to escape the oppressive terror of Stalin’s regime and find safety in London.
In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap, or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees. Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target, John Murray, a British Embassy cypher in Moscow. As two disparate lives intertwine, their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands, clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.
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