White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

I consider the day I found this book in a used book store as perhaps the luckiest "book finding" day of my life. Written in almost lyrical prose, this is a heart stopping, gut wrenching, life-affirming adventure in real life. If you think you understand what the Russian people went through during and after the Bolshevik revolution, you don't. This is history written firsthand; enduring love for country, fellow man, and most of all husband and child; this is heroism, and triumph over appalling fear; and most of all, a story of enduring and unquenchable spirit.