Barbara Moore's sudden disappearance has been the subject of endless speculation ever since that fateful summer day in Prague in 1936. The picture is made no clearer by the various debates surrounding the possibility that Ms. Moore, a US citizen, was working undercover, as a government agent, especially in view of the lack of agreement about whose government she might actually have been working for.

The recent claim by Moscow that she was executed in the Russian capital prior to the outbreak of World War Two, tends to suggest that she was not ultimately acting on orders from the Kremlin. This claim, and the evidence which supports it, provided the springboard for Barbaria's tenacious investigation into what really happened, following seamlessly from her previous publication, 'Berlin Diary'.

Drawing on archival material, photographic records from the Bobinder Collection and eyewitness accounts, 'Barbarossanova' is a triumph of dedicated research which takes us on a journey to discover the truth. If there can ever be a definitive account of what happens when the lady vanishes, this is probably it.