The secret diaries of a 23-year-old White Russian princess who worked at the German Foreign Office from 1940 to the end of the war provides a unique look at World War II from the German side. 16 page photo insert.
A completely new view of World War II--daily life in the Third Reich, recorded by an emigree Russian princess who moved in the highest aristocratic circles, lived through the bombing of Berlin and saw her most intimate friends killed after the failure of their plot to kill Hitler. 8 pages of halftones.
The biography of a White Russian emigree trapped with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grew up to be a strong-minded, committed and courageous woman.
Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
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