{"product_id":"the-traitors-daughter-roxana-spicer-9780735246539","title":"The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity--but never revealed her darkest secrets.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiscovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now--perhaps forever--lost again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Traitor's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roxana Spicer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 073524653X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780735246539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Viking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Roxana Spicer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44761163628799,"sku":"9780735246539","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f1690c8-04ff-4452-b306-77771b64050d.jpg?v=1706680555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-traitors-daughter-roxana-spicer-9780735246539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}