"ten days that shook the world"

[bkmchorse]

Anyone have an opinion on this famous book? It's an engrossing read, but how reliable is it as a factual account of events in revolutionary Russia? Certainly it provides a moving snapshot of the feelings, emotions, etc. that prevailed during those tumultous days and is an invaluable source of anecdotes that reveal a lot about the personalities of the Revolution's leaders and the common people who made it happen. But I have heard that at some points Reed let his revolutionary fervor get the best of his journalistic integrity, and that some of the events in the book are falsified or portrayed with dubious accuracy. Can anyone shed some light on this for me and maybe bring up some other examples of "eyewitness" accounts of the Revolution that could be compared to Reed's?

Thanks