Alan Furst's list

Alan Furst, the acclaimed author of nine World War II spy novels, including Night Soldiers, Dark Voyage, Kingdom of Shadows, and The Foreign Correspondent, came up with a list of favored books for The Week magazine.Among his picks:Red Cavalry by Isaac BabelBabel was one of the great Russian writers of his generation — a Jewish journalist who rode with Budyonny’s Cossacks in the civil wars