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Owen Matthews

White Fox (The Black Sun Trilogy)

By Owen Matthews - Published 2023

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Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1959 and lived and worked in Minsk until he returned to the U....Read Review

Black Sun

By Owen Matthews - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

Days before Soviet scientists and military plan to test the 27-ton RDS-220 nuclear device on the abandoned village of Severny in the Novaya ...Read Review

Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov & the Dream of a Russian America

By Owen Matthews - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

Nikolai Rezanov attached himself to the court of Catherine the Great, giving him an opportunity to participate in what amounted to the colonization ...Read Review