The Traitor's Daughter

<b>INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>“Exquisite.... Rarely has there been a more powerful account of the 20th century’s horrors.” —Rosemary Sullivan, author of <i>Stalin’s Daughter</i><br><br>The 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.</b><br><br>As 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....<br><br>Everyone 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. <br><br>Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana''s obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, she took every chance to visit the few places that she knew played a role in her mother''s story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany; 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. <br><br><i>The Traitor''s Daughter</i> 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.