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Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker - left his barracks in Bavaria one August day in 1952, and

Author Victor Grossman was born Stephen Wechsler but changed his name after defecting to the German Democratic Republic in 1952. A child of the Depression era, he fled McCarthyite America and potential prosecution and this memoir offers his view of the Cold War.