Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale vegan It’s very fitting that Lanier

It’s very fitting that Lanier should have devoted himself to creating alternate realities

of time spent in a Benedictine monastery high above the Pacific

and of one man's ability to make a difference

photographed so vividly you can almost smell the freshly chopped parsley

Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant

Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale vegan It’s very fitting that Lanier'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Splendid a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The TimesBy