Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Charles King

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Here a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky and immunologist Ilya Mechnikov. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale: not only the insid...

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