Monte Rosa

<p style=text-align: justify;>A sweeping panorama of the author's life from the outbreak of WWII to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The narrative begins in Ukraine and ends in Paris where he coordinated the work of fty undercover interviewers engaged in unorthodox research with Soviet visitors in Western Europe a chapter of Cold War history never revealed in such remarkable detail. The story includes the author's narrow escape from Communism an account of his extended family's ordeal in the Soviet Gulag life in post-war Bavaria thirty years in Chicago and culminates with twelve years in France where he worked for the International Energy Agency and Radio Liberty.</p>