Alexander Kugushev was born in France, of Russian parents, and educated successively in Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland and Argentina. The son of political emigres, growing up in a Europe rent by conflicts between the two World Wars, he experienced a fair share of life's ups and downs. He lived through World War II, the defining experience of his life, as a boy and into his early teens. He is a journalist by trade and a publisher by profession, having spent a career of over forty years publishing educational materials in the United States, in print and on the internet. He founded and was the