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Edward Crankshaw (3 January 1909 — 30 November 1984), was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs.

Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the Nonconformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire, England. He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German. He witnessed Adolf Hitler's Austro-German union in 1938, and predicted the Second World War while living there.

In 1940 Crankshaw was contacted by the Secret Intelligence Service because of his knowledge of German. From 1941 to 1943 he was assigned to the Military Mission in Moscow, where he learnt Russian.

From 1947 to 1968 he worked for the British newspaper The Observer. He died in 1984 in Hawkhurst, Kent.

Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian, (Vienna; Vienna, the Image of a Culture in Decline; Fall of the House of Habsburg; Gestapo. Instrument of Tyranny; Maria Theresa; Bismarck; The Habsburgs: a dynasty...) and Russian subjects, (Britain and Russia; Putting up with the Russians; Tolstoy: The making of a novelist; Russia without Stalin; The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution, 1825—1917; Khrushchev; Khrushchev Remembers; The New Cold War, Moscow vs. Pekin; preface to Grigory Klimov's The Terror Machine).

Edward Crankshaw
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Total Books: 56
Bismarck
Bismarck (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780140063448
ISBN-10: 0140063447
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Bismarck Eine Biographie
Bismarck Eine Biographie (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783471772492
ISBN-10: 3471772499
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Cracks in the Kremlin 2
Cracks in the Kremlin 2 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670244683
ISBN-10: 0670244686
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Cracks In The Kremlin Wall
Cracks in the Kremlin Wall (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781406761122
ISBN-10: 1406761125
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The Fall of the House of Habsburg
The Fall of the House of Habsburg (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780140064599
ISBN-10: 0140064591
Genre: History
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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Fall of the House of Hapsburg
Fall of the House of Hapsburg (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780582107700
ISBN-10: 0582107709
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The Fall of the House of Hapsburg
The Fall of the House of Hapsburg (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670306046
ISBN-10: 0670306045
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The Forsaken Idea A Study of Viscount Milner
The Forsaken Idea a Study of VIscount Milner (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780837172781
ISBN-10: 0837172780
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Gestapo
Gestapo (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780450013072
ISBN-10: 0450013073
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Gestapo Instrument of Tyranny
Gestapo Instrument of Tyranny (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780306805677
ISBN-10: 0306805677
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Habsburgs
Habsburgs (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783217004214
ISBN-10: 3217004213
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The Habsburgs 2
The Habsburgs 2 [A Studio book] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670361342
ISBN-10: 0670361348
Genre: History
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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The Hapsburgs
The Hapsburgs (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780297004271
ISBN-10: 0297004271
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Joseph Conrad Some aspects of the art of the novel
Joseph Conrad Some Aspects of the Art of the Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780333186367
ISBN-10: 0333186362
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Khrushchev
Khrushchev (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780670003303
ISBN-10: 0670003301
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Khrushchev a biography
Khrushchev a Biography (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780722126516
ISBN-10: 0722126514
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Khrushchev A Career
Khrushchev a Career (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670412723
ISBN-10: 0670412724
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780582107847
ISBN-10: 0582107849
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The New Cold War Moscow V Pekin
The New Cold War Moscow V Pekin (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780836955507
ISBN-10: 0836955501
Genre: History
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Putting Up with the Russians
Putting Up with the Russians (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670583300
ISBN-10: 0670583308
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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Putting Up with the Russians 19471984
Putting Up with the Russians 19471984 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780333323267
ISBN-10: 0333323262
Genre: History
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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