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​The One Percent Faction

The final volume of Ian Ansell Marshall’s Russian saga, stretching from 1914 to 1945. This volume traces the rise of Stalin and his influence over the events of the time during the 1930’s and 1940’s and how this effects the lives of a collection of idealists and individuals drawn into the maelstrom of European history at the time.
From Cable Street to the Gulag, from the Spanish Civil War to the influx of American workers to Russia following the Great Depression the story shows how these people were swept away by the events of the tumultuous times and how they fought to survive them.

*The other two books in this series are,
Today and Tomorrow
Situs Inversus.

Both are available on Amazon.

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Published Date Nov 2024

298 pages

Independently Published

Authors Personal View

The One percent Faction, is based around the book ‘The Forsaken’ by Tim Tzouliades, one of the best history books I’ve ever read. It follows an American life in Russia during the 1930’s and 40’s and Rodin Malinovsky’s life and career during the same period. As well as Malinovsky there are other characters that cross over all three books and provide a consistency in the plot lines.

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​The Cockles in the Wheat

Leonora and Boniface. Two people trying to find their way in the dangerous world of the Vikings and the Saxons. Asked by the King to write a story about Canute they find themselves drawn into the power play of politics and violence from the rival factions at the court and in the country. This is where a person’s history can decide their fate and as Boniface discovers Leonora has a history.

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Published Date March 2024

180 pages

Independently Published

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​Situs Inversus: A novel of the Russian Civil War

A novel of the Russian Civil War: 1919, 1920. The war is over and the soldiers are going home, back to the lives they once had. For some this is easy, but for others, like the Russian soldiers from the Western Front, going home will present difficult challenges. They return to a land torn by revolution and famine. To a land where the Bolsheviks are fighting for their survival in a civil war of Reds against Whites. Into this maelstrom steps the men of the Russian battalion. This story follows a band of soldiers and the challenges they face in a world they thought they knew but now turned upside down. Situs Inversus.

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Published Date Sept 2023

318 pages

Independently Published

Authors Personal View

Situs Inversus comes more from my imagination as well as using a Russian biography of Rodoin Malinovsky, (I call him Rodin in the book) called ‘Marshal Malinovsky: Hero of the Soviet Union and architect of the modern Soviet Army,’ by Boris Sokolov, translated into English and published with the co-operation of the United States Army. I suppose it’s part of the Cold War ‘know your enemy’ mantra. There is also a plot line of Malinovsky’s friends and how they cope with Russia under the Bolsheviks.

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​Today & Tomorrow: The story of the Russians fighting on the Western Front

The First World War and Russians on the Western Front. Follow the path of a group of men who come to call themselves friends as they navigate the dangers of the war and the politics that go with it from Russia to France to Africa. A friendship and love that would last them today and tomorrow. As above, so below.

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Published Date July 2021

418 pages

Publisher: UK Book Publishing

Authors Personal View

About five or six years ago I came across a book called “With Snow on their Boots,” by Jamie Cockfield. It is the complete story of the Russian soldiers in France from 1916 to 1920. The book provided the skeleton and the raw material I needed to construct the story I have. I wrote the book during the lockdown in the Covid pandemic, the scenes in the Algerian desert were particularly ironic as they were set in the 1919 flu epidemic. Today and Tomorrow id based around that book and the story of the Russians on the Western Front.

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