Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life (Used Signed First Edition Hardcover) - Victor Herman

This astonishing true story is the tale of a young American man who was sent to the Soviet Union with his parents by the Ford Motor Company to set up an auto plant. He was eventually thrown into Soviet prisons and could not return to America until forty-five years later. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he met and fell in love with a beautiful Russian gymnast who followed him into exile and lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia, in a caved chopped out under the ice. Theirs is the compelling story of a romance destined to thrive under even the most desperate conditions. It was 1938 when Victor Herman was inexplicably thrown into prison, after he had become a celebrity in the Soviet Union, having won acclaim as "the Lindbergh of Russia" for his flying and world-record-breaking parachute jumps. 

Published 1979 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, First Edition

369 pages

6.5" X 9.5"

Condition: This book is in Acceptable Condition. The pages are largely clean and unmarked except for a few small brown stains on the page edges. The dust cover has a number of small tears on the edges. The book is autographed by the author and his wife to a previous owner, dated May 19, 1980.