Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story, set in the Russian Revolution. Blood Red, Snow White tells the incredible true story of Arthur Ransome, who would later become famous as the author of Swallows and Amazons, during his time in Moscow and St Petersburg as revolution broke around him. Becoming first a British agent and then a Bolshevik informer, Ransome's most dangerous mission came when he fell in love with Trotsky's private secretary, and had to cross enemy lines to rescue her...

