To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey |
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| Author:
| Fischer, Victor
Wohlforth, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60223-140-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.95 |
Book Description:
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Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends’ parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family’s escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II, while his childhood friends fought in the Soviet...
More DescriptionSon of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends’ parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered the Fischer family’s escape from Russia, and soon after Victor was serving in the United States Army in World War II, while his childhood friends fought in the Soviet and German armies.