In "Echoes of Exile," Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe's calamitous 20th century conflicts--the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War--by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

Daniela Spenser is a fellow at CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Mexico City. She is author of The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s and Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico: The Early Years of the Communist International.