A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky
by
Bernard Wolfe, William T. Vollmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day.
In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky’s assassination as witnessed...