THE COUNTERFEIT COSSACK THE LIFE OF ARTHUR FEDER is the story of one man so packed with adventure you could base ten exciting biographies on it.Arthur Feder was born in a tiny Polish town of just two thousand souls. His parents were pious merchants but World War II disrupted their lives for good. Arthur was plucked from his provincial existence by the Soviet state and sent far away learn engineering. Due to class tardiness the fanatical Soviets sent him to jail for a year and inadvertently sa