To Russia with Love: An Alaskan's Journey

by Victor Fischer and Charles Wohlforth

Book Overview

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 and fighting opposite his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602231397
• ISBN13: 9781602231399
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"