Peter Buck Feller — The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags - with Dr. Carole Sargent

Peter Buck Feller's father disappeared in Moscow in 1938, when Feller was just six months old. As a young boy he asked his mother about him, but his questions went invariably unanswered. Decades later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Feller embarked on a detailed search to reclaim his father.His journey took him and his adult daughters to Moscow, Siberia, and Germany. He gained access to a now-declassified espionage FBI file, which contained an anonymous letter from a man who had been imprisoned in one of Stalin's gulags: "I plan to write a book about all what occurred to me during these dreadful ten years. The title of this book, I would like it to be 'The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller.'"Feller was stunned. William Schwarzfeller was his lost father, for whom he searched, in one way or another, all of his life. He learned that his father had been an agent for Red Army Intelligence. He was arrested in 1938 and starved to death in a gulag in 1943. This new information led him to a host of discoveries, his mother's vast FBI file, and a story about his father on the front page of the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker.Peter Buck Feller is an independent historian with a particular interest in Soviet-German conflicts and espionage during the Second World War. He has written articles for Foreign Policy, and for The Pennsylvania Gazette.Feller is in conversation with Carole Sargent, PhD, a Georgetown University faculty member. She advises professors with foreign policy and military backgrounds to publish analysis of global conflict with university presses including Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, and Cornell, and at high-impact academic journals. Her authors have won international recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize. She has been an advisor to faculty at National Defense University, Swedish Defence University, Hiroshima University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the RAND Corporation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and many others. She is the author of three books. Additionally, with Berkley Center fellow Drew Christiansen SJ, PhD she is co-editor of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, including contributions from Pope Francis, Nobel peace laureates such as Jody Williams, Beatrice Fihn (ICAN), and Muhammad Yunus, and military leaders.https://politics-prose.com/book/9798881807573?ic_referral=Z2FoXjqdLBDPq4QXdGnjJN8lMdNfX4hB3POSaoizca0wM2gaGP0N9lm-sI_d6X4ZOiizpPs1HC_kDv3W-IK1SL_5dJO21hmaLe6xPiXCrJOciS_oipXGGkmSaWy9qnydlb6uks4