Author, "The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller"
Coming soon by Bloomsbury Publishing
Author, "The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller"
Coming soon by Bloomsbury Publishing
About the Author, Peter Buck Feller
Son of a Gulag Victim
Peter Buck Feller spent two decades researching the life of the father he never knew. He is a retired partner in the firm of McKenna, Long, and Aldridge, which merged to form Dentons, the largest multinational law firm in the world. He was previously an official of the US Department of the Treasury, where he was a legal advisor regularly
Peter Buck Feller spent two decades researching the life of the father he never knew. He is a retired partner in the firm of McKenna, Long, and Aldridge, which merged to form Dentons, the largest multinational law firm in the world. He was previously an official of the US Department of the Treasury, where he was a legal advisor regularly quoted in The New York Times. An authority on the international trade and customs laws of the United States, he has helped define the law in these areas. A book he published on the topic, U. S. Customs and International Trade Guide (Matthew Bender Publishing), is a standard in the field and has sold abundantly over multiple printings since 1980, earning the author well over a million dollars in royalties.
Feller is an independent historian with a particular interest in Soviet-German conflicts and espionage during the Second World War. He has published on these topics in Foreign Policy, and The Pennsylvania Gazette, founded by Benjamin Franklin. He earned an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from The American University, Washington College of Law, and an L.L.M. from the George Washington University Law Center.
Related Published Work
Declassified, published by Foreign Policy
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/10/08/declassified/
Hunger Strike, published by The Pennsylvania Gazette
In 2011, I had occasion to read an old FBI espionage file that disclosed, much to my amazement, that my father had gone on a hunger strike in 1943 in one of Stalin’s infamous gulags. His name was William Schwarzfeller, and he was protesting the inhumane conditions in Vorkuta, a desolate forced labor camp 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Ultimately, he starved to death.
https://thepenngazette.com/hunger-strike/
