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Title: A long row of candles
Review: this is one of the most engrossing books I have read in a long time. Cy takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Balkins before and during WWII. Cy graduated from Harvard in 1934 and went to Europe. He picked up odd writing jobs but in 1939 he went into the Balkins to be the only American covering that part of the world. He was privy to information that was not released to the rest of the works and was finally coerced into being the foreign corrospondent for the Times. His insight into the people and the times are so candid that he frequently wound up in more trouble than a prisoner of war. He bought a terrier, Felix, in 1939 and detailed its exploits until its death in 1942. His future wife wrote from Athens Greece during the Nazi occupation, "it is a good think you did not leave Felix with us. He would have starved to death." More likely he would have been eaten.Cy tells of his interviews with Tito, Churchill and his futile efforts to interview Stalin. This is a must read book.
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