A quick read, interesting but without much drama. (I mean, she wrote the book, so obviously she made it.) The biggest suspense was whether any given Russian soldier would help them, ignore them, rape them, or shoot them. The author seemed like an adrenalin junkie who couldn't cope after the war. She became a writer in the U.S., and several affairs, and mocked the American for their "simplistic Christianity" while partying and drinking herself to an early grave.