Codename: Zosha: A Woman Fighter Against the Nazis by Yehudit KafriMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This took me much longer to read than usual - it was long and unnecessarily so, padded by the poet author with wistful nostalgia, imagined conversations with the subject, and digressions into present day encounters with sources. Beneath all that is a fascinating tale of a Jewish Bolshevik radicalized in Mandate Palestine championing Arab equality and churned into a pointless, young death by the heartless Moscow controllers as a radio encipherer in Brussels. Much here refutes point by point facts asserted by Leopold Trepper in Great Game: Story of the Red Orchestra making this a natural companion book to that memoir.
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