Harold Shukman retired recently as University Lecturer in Modern Russian History at Oxford. Geoffrey Elliott is a retired investment banker and an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
'Elliott and Shukman vividly depict the narrowness of [the JSSL] world For many, including the dramatists Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, the years at the school were indeed some of the best of their lives' D. M. Thomas, GUARDIAN'Shukman and Elliott, both JSSL alumni, have written an engaging, quirky account of this strange offshoot of the Cold War a kind of VIRGIN SOLDIERS for clever clogs' Michael Leapman, INDEPENDENT'No one interested in late 20th-century theatre or literarure can afford to ignore this book a highly entertaining read.' SPECTATOR'[A] thoroughly researched and well-told story.' HISTORY TODAY
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