In Lubianka's Shadow: The Memoirs of an American Priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945
“The Assumptionist priest Léopold Braun . . . was right about Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre, Soviet post-war intentions and the squalid realities of a police state . . . in some passages-the desecrations, meetings with implacable secret police and an obtuse American ambassador, a soldier's wedding deep in the forest, and a visit by General de Gaulle (for which the church was repaired, properly lit and heated for twelve hours)-he shows us a strange, distant world.” —Times Literary Supplement, January 12, 2007