Russian Saga Author:George Oscar Lee George Oscar Lee, author of "Goat for Azazel" has now come out with a stunning collection of short stories and poems. "Russian Saga" tells the sometimes funny, but always uncannily observant tales of human behavior under conditions of privation and plenty. These stories are based on his own unusual life experiences. Starting with his title story... more », the author describes his escape as a teenager from Nazi-occupied Poland to the Ural Mountains of Russia, where he fell into slightly less menacing hands of Soviet Secret Police and, after some trials and tribulations, ended up as a soldier in the Polish Army. As a young man, he saw duty in Second White Russian Front and took part in the liberation of Warsaw. His stories continue to chronicle his life of a newly-arrived immigrant to America and carry his reader through the transitions of life, including the loss of his first wife and mother of his children, and the new found pleasures of retirement. Some of the stories have been published by Bergen Record,Forward, Bialystoker Shtime, Dos Yiddishes Wort and Ziemia Drohobycka (both in Yiddish and Polish).« less