Contents

Preface

Prologue

Part I:  Grand Alliance

1 Mission to Moscow

2 Stalin’s Verdict

3 Going Frantic

4 Poltava

Part II:  The Battles of Poltava

5 Soft Landing

6 Comrades in Arms

7 Death to Spies

8 Pearl Harbor on the Steppes

9 Forbidden Love

10 Picking a Fight

11 Fall of Warsaw

Part III:  Strange Bedfellows

12 Forgotten Bastards of Ukraine

13 Watchtower

14 New Year’s Dance

15 Yalta

16 Prisoners of War

17 Rupture

18 Last Parade

Part IV:  Cold War Landing

19 Spoils of War

20 Poltava Suspects

21 Witch Hunt

22 Washington Reunion

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Plates