{"product_id":"9798881807573","title":"The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags","description":"Author: Feller, Peter Buck\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798881807573\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 19 Feb 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 200 Format: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Buck Feller's father disappeared in Moscow in 1938, when Feller was just six months old. As a young boy he asked his mother about him, but his questions went \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003einvariably \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eunanswered. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDecades later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Feller embarked on a detailed search to reclaim his father. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis journey took him and his adult daughters to Moscow, Siberia, and Germany. He gained access to a now-declassified espionage FBI file, which contained an anonymous letter from a man who had been imprisoned in one of Stalin's gulags- \"I plan to write a book about all what occurred to me during these dreadful ten years. The title of this book, I would like it to be '\u003ci\u003eThe Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller.'\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Feller was stunned. William Schwarzfeller was his lost father, for whom he searched, in one way or another, all of his life. He learned that his father had been an agent for Red Army Intelligence. He was arrested in 1938 and starved to death in a gulag in 1943. This new information led him to a host of discoveries, his mother's vast FBI file, and a story about his father on the front page of the Communist newspaper \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Worker\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46655904252062,"sku":"UBD-9798881807573","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798881807573.jpg?v=1774836809","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798881807573","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}