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In this memoir, historian Mark Mazower composes a moving fresco of his own family who, by chance of fate, passed through the siege of Leningrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His father, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after the civil war and revolution, was lucky enough to be born in Great Britain. Max, the grandfather, had been a member of the Bund's socialist organization as a young man and had faced the Tsarist troops, although he never spoke of it. Frouma, the grandmother, came from a family devastated by the Great Purge and still managed to make her way into Soviet society. A century after the Russian Revolution, this story evokes a socialist faction today forgotten: a passionate, caring and open-minded collective. At the same time, the book tells us about the happiness that sometimes awaits the losers of history, the power of friendship and the values that allowed the son of Max and Frouma to feel England as his true home.