BLACK SEA.<i> Hill & Wang: 306 pp., $23</i>
On the black sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.
The Russian Revolution’s final victory over its enemies was the moment at Novorossisk, in March 1920, when British battleships moved out to sea carrying General Denikin’s defeated White Army on their foredecks. My father was a midshipman there, a boy of eighteen who then and for the rest of his life understood the significance of what he saw.
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