Nina's journey : a memoir of Stalin's Russia and the Second World War

"How the author escapes... to make her way to 'the blessed shores of America,' provides a stirring conclusion to an entirely powerful and illuminating book." --Booklist A powerful autobiography written in the grand Russian tradition telling the story of how Nina Markovna endured life under Stalin and the tumult of World War II, being tossed back and forth between the opposing German and Soviet armies. The personal drama of a young girl's struggle to survive with her family, between the opposing German and Soviet armies, in Eastern Europe.