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Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany
Crossing the River A Memoir of the American Left the Cold War and Life in East Germany
Author: Victor Grossman
What could possibly impel a relatively privileged twenty-four-year-old American—serving in the U.S. Army in Germany in 1952—to swim across the Danube River to what was then referred to as the Soviet Zone? How are we to understand his decision to forsake the land of his birth and build a new life in the still young German Democratic Republic? The...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781558493711
ISBN-10: 1558493719
Pages: 312
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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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