Steven J Zipperstein: Pogrom [2019] paperback ZTWRI Lyman's reasons for his deceitfulness

Lyman's reasons for his deceitfulness shed new light on old memories and replace deception with the unavoidable

'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore

As the intelligence they gathered revealed increasingly horrific details about the Holocaust (most of which was only then beginning to come to light)

after eight years of war

Then there's the discovery of the head of Ned Belly

Steven J Zipperstein: Pogrom [2019] paperback ZTWRI Lyman's reasons for his deceitfulnessSo shattering were the after effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself". In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, whilst more than 1,000 Jewish owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed. Recounted in lurid detail by newspapers throughout the Western world, the pre Easter attacks