Prophet Armed Trotsky 1879-1921

"Deutscher's biography is still tremendous. The power and excitement of his prose knock the reader down. His command of the language, late Victorian in its freedom and in the absence of secondhand imagery, in some ways surpasses that of his fellow Pole Joseph Conrad. The scholarship is enormous and--given that the Moscow archives were closed to him--comprehensive. Above all, there is Deutscher's own enthusiasm, a sort of majestic urgency. He believed that his subject mattered."Deutscher, Isaac is the author of 'Prophet Armed Trotsky 1879-1921' with ISBN 9781859844410 and ISBN 1859844413.