Mischka's War
A European Odyssey of the 1940s
- Paperback
313 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2017
Summary
On a winter’s day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods—a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka’s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going on a student exchange to Germany all the more remarkable. Even more so when Mischka later discovered he was part-Jewish.
But his was no ordinary life. He narrowly escaped death in the A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522867855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522867855 |
| Author: | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 313 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 478g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, and Emerita Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Born and educated in Australia, Fitzpatrick moved in the early 1970s to the United States, where she made her career as a Soviet historian. Author of The Russian Revolution and Everyday Stalinism, she is considered a founder in the field of Soviet history. A Spy in the Archives, a memoir of Moscow in the Cold War published in 2013, was a National Biography award finalist in 2014.
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