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Conscience A man of
conscience ...commitment A life burning for dignity and freedom. To Spain to fight Fascism at 16. His 530 page autobiography is fast, exciting detailed; telling of childhood in 1920's Paris; soldiering with Brigadistas against Franco; scarring fire injury from a German shell in a north Africa tank battle; prison in Argentina for speaking against Peron; mining exploration in Brazilian jungles; loves, alcohol, fast cars, and living in America. Chapters about the Spanish Civil War and WWII were earlier published in Spain as: "Aventurero Idealista". The Idealistic Adventurer
The Sossenko family flees the Russian revolution in 1917,
first to Berlin then to Left Bank Paris. Growing up among White Russians
and left intellectuals, George Sossenko, at 16, joins the good fight in
Spain as a member of the French Brigade, against Fascist Franco. Rescuing
young George from near-certain death in the fascist victory, the family
flees once again, this time from the Nazi monster, to Argentina. Soon
George is back in uniform fighting with the Free French and English in
North Africa then the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy and France, surviving but
leaving many a friend on the battlefield. His return to Argentina and
eventual engagement in the business world follows the war. His adventures
in this arena are often as hair-raising as the war years.
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