Dear Neil,
Many thanks for this.
Maisky was indeed a fascinating, complex character, with a no less
complicated later life, as magnificently explained in the notes and
introductory texts of Professor Gorodetsky's superb edition of the Diaries.
Interested Churchillians might like to have a
The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) yesterday broadcast an
interview with Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky discussing his book The Maisky
Diaries: Red Ambassasdor to the Court of St. James's 1932-1943.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/the-russian-ambas