The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 121
... Roskin needed one paragraph , where I would have been obliged to write a whole page . This , obviously , was the reason why we used to refer to Roskin's articles as being made of steel - for their brevity , their finish and their cold ...
... Roskin needed one paragraph , where I would have been obliged to write a whole page . This , obviously , was the reason why we used to refer to Roskin's articles as being made of steel - for their brevity , their finish and their cold ...
Page 124
... Roskin's hands quotations be- came his own creations . I was convinced that with such a sharp ' sense of quotation ' it would be possible to combine them into a remarkable book , making up a single whole in spite of differences in the ...
... Roskin's hands quotations be- came his own creations . I was convinced that with such a sharp ' sense of quotation ' it would be possible to combine them into a remarkable book , making up a single whole in spite of differences in the ...
Page 129
... Roskin's unit was surrounded . The Germans interrogated the prisoners and screened out the Jews . The interpreter , himself a member of the unit , told them Roskin was an Armenian . He was saved , or so it seemed . But some scoundrel ...
... Roskin's unit was surrounded . The Germans interrogated the prisoners and screened out the Jews . The interpreter , himself a member of the unit , told them Roskin was an Armenian . He was saved , or so it seemed . But some scoundrel ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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