Breaking from the KGB is a vivid and ripping wartime saga. It is also an important historical document from the pen and the heart of a man who endured the destruction of his family, his community, and his religious faith during the brutal Nazi occupation of Poland. Forced to assume a new identity in order to survive, Maurice Shainberg impersonated a Polish Catholic and- with the help of underground anti-Nazi fighters - became Mieczyslaw Pruzanski.