Gerard Noel

Watching the ranks closing

  • Berlin Embassy

    William Russell

    Elliott & Thomson, pp. 239

William Russell was a young American who worked as a clerk in the US embassy in Berlin at the time of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. When Berlin Embassy, his account of those epic times appeared in 1941, it was acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic.

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