Peter Stephan Jungk is an author, filmmaker, and screenwriter. A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author of thirteen books, including his acclaimed biography of Franz Werfel; the novel The Snowflake Constant; and The Perfect American, a semi-fictional biography of Walt Disney’s last months which was turned into an opera by Philip Glass. Jungk’s creative works extend to radio, television, and cinema, and he documented the life of his cousin Edith Tudor-Hart in the 2016 film Tracking Edith. He has lived in Paris since 1988.Nick Caistor is a British non-fiction writer and prolific literary translator, known for his English versions of contemporary Latin American literature and Spanish classics. He frequently translates works by authors such as Sergio Bizzio.Amanda Hopkinson is a scholar, writer, and literary translator, notably from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is best known for her translations of Latin American authors like José Saramago and her writings on photography.

A biographical masterpiece! Gerhard Roth

• The Giant Ferris Wheel 1Regent’s Park 5The Go-Between 7The Centenarian 17A Lifelong Commitment 29The Enteren Gründ 41The Bauhaus ‘Red Brigade’ 45TASS Correspondent 51Kim the Bourgeois 59Recruitment 65‘The Idea of Communism Lives On!’ 77All Skin and Bone 85‘Don’t Forget to Come Back!’ 89The Interrogation 99An Attempt at Aryanisation 111Blitz and Surveillance 115My Father’s Friends 127Codename Enormous 135Who Was Kaspar? 141Romantic Entanglements 149On Rampage 159Inside the Moscow Labyrinth 169Codename Homer 189Autodafé 201‘I am at the End’ 209The Third Man 223Beirut 235The Rearview Mirror of History 243The Lonely Soldier 251Copper Cliff Nursing Home 259Homecoming 269Afterword 275Who’s Who of the Key Figures 279Select Bibliography 287Acknowledgements 291