The author of this diary, Marie (‘Missie’) Vassiltchikov* was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 11 January 1917. She died of leukemia in London on 12 August 1978. These are the absorbing wartime diaries of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov, a White Russian who worked in a German foreign office in Berlin from 1940-45. Idealistic, vivacious and observant, Missie was a diarist of the...
London. Methuen. 1987. - 324 c. The author of this diary, Marie (‘Missie’) Vassiltchikov* was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 11 January 1917. She died of leukemia in London on 12 August 1978. These are the absorbing wartime diaries of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov, a White Russian who worked in a German foreign office in Berlin from 1940-45. Idealistic, vivacious and...
First published in Great Britain in 1985 by Chatto & VVindus Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, London wcib 3RP This paperback edition published in 1987 by Methuen London Ltd. Marie ‘Missie’ Vassiltchikov was a White Russian emigre caught with her family in Hitler’s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a...
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