The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War

I wonder, though, if you would be able to delete one superfluous review quote and substitute two better ones that are on the back cover of the paperback but missing from Amazon? The very first quote on the Amazon list is from Sergey Radchenko (no mention of the journal in which he reviewed it) and then, further down the list, there is exactly the same quote from Radchenko, this time giving also the name of the journal, Slavic Review (an important American journal in the field), in which he published it.

The first mention of Radchenko should be deleted. The two quotes that should be added are from Fiona Hill (the Chair of the judges who awarded it the Pushkin House Book Prize – there is no mention of that prize on Amazon) and Christopher Read. These are the top two quotes on the back cover of the paperback. There is a different quote from Read’s remarkably positive review inside the paperback, but that on the back cover is especially good: “Brown’s book is a superb achievement, a balanced, judicious and authoritative account of a foundation event of our contemporary world”, Christopher Read, Diplomacy and Statecraft. It would be good to start with Fiona Hill, followed by Christopher Read, in the Amazon extracts from reviews, just as the paperback itself does.

There is still no mention of Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2021 which appears on the back cover of the paperback. In the past, Kate has been able to add or subtract quotes to the Amazon list as reviews have come in. I’d be very grateful if you could follow up on the request in the second of my two paragraphs within quotation marks. Radchenko should not be appearing twice and should not be the first person to be quoted. That should be Fiona Hill who has high name recognition – and it remains a pity that the excellent quote from Christopher Read (mentioned above – and used on the back cover of the paperback) still doesn’t appear on Amazon.