Alexander werth biography

Russian-born British journalist (1901–1969)

Alexander Werth (4 February 1901 – 5 March 1969) was a Russian-born, naturalized British writer, journalist, and war correspondent.

Biography

Werth was born in St Petersburg. Werth fled with his father and grandfather to the United Kingdom in the wake of the Russian Revolution.

Alexander werth biography

He attended classes at the University of Glasgow from 1919 to 1922, taking classes in English, French, History, Russian, Philosophy and Comparative Literature.^[1] He became a naturalised British citizen on 7 July 1930.^[2]

Werth wrote about France in the prewar period and he also wrote about Russia in World War II, especially the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Leningrad.

He was one of the first outsiders to be allowed into Stalingrad after the battle. He spoke and wrote both Russian and English fluently. Werth spent most of World War II in Russia as a BBC correspondent, and had unrivalled access due to the combin