Derek Law's Bibliography

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TOLLEY, Kemp. Caviar and Commissars: The Experiences of a US Naval Officer in Stalin's Russia. xvii, 289p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 1557504075.

       The travelogue-type memoirs of an Assistant Naval Attaché, with some marginal comment on the Arctic convoys. He was a freelance intelligence officer in China, the Baltic states and eastern Europe from 1935 to 1937, and Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow from 1942 to 1944. Full of entertaining anecdote and numerous period photographs.