The book gives a gripping historical account of growing up under Communist rule.

In the episode on the Berlin Wall, he provides a gripping account of his family's flight to freedom.

Much of the rest is the comic and absolutely gripping account of making the giant cheese.

It is a gripping account of one of the most bizarre episodes in the country's political history, told by those who were on the barricades.

There are some gripping accounts of the war there, as it happens.

It is a gripping account, horridly fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.

Grant wrote something quite different, a gripping account of war.

Most of the tales have been told before but never under one cover and in such a gripping account.

Still, this was a gripping account of a work that in lesser hands can easily maunder.

A gripping account, with Miss Vishnevskaya in her vocal prime.