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Nina's Journey: A Memoir of Stalin's Russia & the Second World War

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.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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