Dear Unknown Friend

Informationen zum Autor Alexis Peri is the author of The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad, winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize and named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best books on the Soviet home front. She is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Klappentext Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence. Their letters-initially tolerated by censors on both sides-revealed the humanity of the enemy and inspired the women to reexamine their own societies. Zusammenfassung Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence. Their lettersinitially tolerated by censors on both sidesrevealed the humanity of the enemy and inspired the women to reexamine their own societies.

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Alexis Peri is the author of The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad, winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize and named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best books on the Soviet home front. She is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.

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Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence. Their letters-initially tolerated by censors on both sides-revealed the humanity of the enemy and inspired the women to reexamine their own societies.