Protecting Moscow from the Soviets

by Peter Baird

A selection of previously published articles that have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, and many more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881001430
• ISBN13: 9780881001433
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: National Writers Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Peter Baird's PROTECTING MOSCOW FROM THE SOVIETS is the gift that keeps on giving: a collection of haunting, hilarious, even profound tales and personal trials. At times confessional and self-mocking, but always insightful, Baird's direct style opens avenues of thought and personal inquiry to the appreciative reader. This reader has seen war, magic, law, and life through Baird's uniquely gifted vision. Also included are a few chapters from Baird's fine novel, BEYOND PELELIU. Valuable works, both.

WWII veteran's widow enjoyed book

My mother-in-law, a retired school teacher and widow of a WWII vet couldn't put the book down. She stated that the book "was a reflection of so many episodes in my life."

As reviewed by The Arizona Attorney Magazine

This review is from the November, 2008 issue of The Arizona Attorney Magazine: "Protecting Moscow is a collection of pieces from The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Simon & Schuster and dozens of other newspapers, magazines and publishers...Some pieces are funny. Others are darkly confessional. With few exceptions, all are very personal, which is obvious from this sampling of chapter titles: 'Representing My Wife Before The United States Supreme Court,' 'My Father Fights The Japanese, PTSD and Me,' 'The Night The Police Came,' 'Watching Sex Videos With My Wife,' and 'A Lawyer Battles Depression'...Whether motivated by courage, compassion or compulsion, Peter Baird's willingness to display the wild wallpaper of his heart is a service to all who read his book."

A Lawyer's Life

Protecting Moscow From the Soviets What do you do if you are a highly successful trial lawyer haunted and depressed by childhood memories? Peter Baird wrote his way toward happiness--twice. His novel Beyond Peleliu presented a fictional narration. This new non-fiction collection of articles, Protecting Moscow from the Soviets, is an up-close and personal, unsparing and redeeming examination of his life. In telling the story of his relationship with his father, his legal career, his love of magic and his hard-won final success in overcoming depression, Baird offers help to others and has won personal peace.

must read

Peter Baird submits a volume with multiple stories of small town America, and personal relationships with remarkable clarity, wisdom and humor. you will read this book in an evening an buy his first book the next morning. Robert Tyson MD, avid reader