The Cost of a Reputation: Aldington Versus Tolstoy - The Causes, Course and Consequences of the Notorious Libel Case - Softcover

Mitchell, Ian David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0953158101 ISBN 13: 9780953158102

Publisher: Topical Books, 1997

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"A wonderfully comprehensive and fair summary of the whole dreadful affair, which I do not believe could be bettered: it is a work of considerable scholarship." Sir Ludovic Kennedy -- letter to author 15 August 1997

"I am convinced that Ian Mitchell is correct in his well-argued new assessment of the famous libel case. There was hanky-panky in the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence." Richard lamb -- The Spectator 22 November 1997

"Ian Mitchell's exhaustive and scholarly post-mortem is not just an absorbing read, but suggests that some key questions remain unanswered." Max Davidson -- The Sunday Telegraph, 12 December 1998

"If after 41 days of High Court hearings, 39 witnesses, a million words spoken and record libel damages, as powerful an indictment as The Cost of a Reputation can still be written on an issue central to our national honour as this, the present situation cannot be allowed to rest." Andrew Roberts -- The Sunday Times 19 October 1997

"Mr Mitchell's book is well researched, painstaking and very readable." Richard Ingrams -- The Observer 19 October 1997

"Reads like Bleak House rewritten by Alexander Solzhenitsyn." Robert Harris -- from The Introduction, 1 October 1997

"The most astonishing book I have read this year. A tour de force of exhaustive scholarship which reads like a thriller." John Campbell -- The Independent, 29 November 1997

"This book ranks as a major contribution to the historical exegesis and the ever burgeoning literature of alleged miscarriages of justice." Martin Mears -- New Law Journal, 19 December 1997

"This is a fascinating, comprehensive and scholarly account... Mr Mitchell is certainly entitled to expect that it will become the definitive work on this cause celebre. I would highly commend this book to all those interested in this important case." Peter Carter-Ruck -- Law Society Gazette, 10 December 1997

Synopsis

The Cost of a Reputation recounts, in painst aking detail, the events of the libel case initiated by Lord Aldington against Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts. The case concerned the forced repatriation of Soviet peoples at the end of WW2. '

Edition details

• Publisher: Topical Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953158101
• ISBN 13: 9780953158102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 511