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What did you think of "My Dear Mr. Stalin"?

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Hi Susan,



I am sorry but this book is a complete failure at least its Polish version (Unfortunately English version is not available here). However I do not think we should blame the translator and the local editor. 1. Why publish only FDR and Stalin? The editor could have much better picture publishing also correspondence with Churchill, Attlee, Chang Kai Szek, and Truman. It would be a complete work. This book shows only part of the process. 2. The editor (sorry but should not call Susan Butler the author - the authors are Stalin and Roosevelt) simply disregards facts if they are not important for her or does not fit her idea of "great alliance". Sorry but as the Polish reader may not know who is (or was) "Chip"Bohlen (and this should be explained in footnote by Polish editor) the same is with common American reader who will not know who was "Bor" Komorowski, Mikolajczyk or Arciszewski. 3. Lack of footnotes! It is not a proper edition!!!

Reply: Unfortunately there is nothing I or my U.S. publisher can do about the Polish edition of My Dear Mr. Stalin: the Polish publishing house is in charge. The lack of footnotes is, I agree, a tragedy. Susan Butler

yeah i like so much this book

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I'd like to talk to you about Amelia Earhart. My name is Jeff Wightman. My e-mail address is: jefwigca@yahoo.com

Not a crackpot, I have done a great deal of research with particular attention to performance of the Electra 10E.


I can never accept the aberrant dictates of social justice of the satellites of Stalin imported to Europe and USA, which ruled out all populist into present Ukraine. What is treason if their reason is: [Quote taken from the letter of Roosevelt to Stalin on Katin of April 29, 1943] ‘I, too, believe that Premier Churchill will find a way to bring the Polish Government to reason and to help it in future to act according to the dictates of common sense.’ A very necessary correspondence, my thanks to Susan Buttler, and Sharon Mooney, who has kindly let me have the book. http://ukraine32famine.blogspot.com/

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