The Metropole Hotel in the Second World War

I was called back to Moscow in the Gorbachev era. I could feel the ghosts of Stalin's purges because many senior Bolsheviks had graced in favour apartments there and had been arrested in the middle of the night. A Russian friend knowing of my interest in the Metropole handed me a book, a Russian book, which was a history of the hotel,. I turned to the Second World War section and found the names of some of the other translators and indeed the British and American journalists. They were never allowed to get to the front line and certainly didn't see or hear a shot fired in anger. Basically, whatever you write, it has to be something that's already