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Book Synopsis Escape from Russia by : Jane Boruszewski
Download or read book Escape from Russia written by Jane Boruszewski and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, Frania is a typical Polish teenager, sneaking out her bedroom window at night to go to dances and falling in love with boys her father does not approve of. Then her world turns upside down when her country is invaded first by the Germans, and then by the Russians. She and her family are deported to a labor camp in Siberia, where they endure many hardships. Even after being granted amnesty, they spend years trying to escape Russia. Some family members do not survive, and others become separated during their travels. Before reaching her beloved Poland once again, Frania learns many important lessons about love, friendship, and survival. Escape from Russia is a wonderful coming-of-age story of historical significance, highly suitable for adult and young adult audiences alike.
Book Synopsis Escape to Russia by : Howard Randolph Holder
Download or read book Escape to Russia written by Howard Randolph Holder and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of men who fought valiantly until they were taken prisoners of war and then fought every move of the enemy to break their American spirit. A story of what men did with time on their hands behind the barbed wire concentration camps of Nazi Germany as they awaited liberation by the Allied armies.
Book Synopsis Escape from Russia by : Stanley Opalka
Download or read book Escape from Russia written by Stanley Opalka and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, a boy and his family are arrested in Poland and deported to a Siberian labor camp, where they remain until their escape to a collective farm in Uzbekistan. A story of courage, unendurable hardship, and perseverence ends with the author settling in New York state.
Book Synopsis Escape from Russia by : Stanley Opalka
Download or read book Escape from Russia written by Stanley Opalka and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Escape from Paradise by : Alexander Shatravka
Download or read book Escape from Paradise written by Alexander Shatravka and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the memoir of a Soviet dissident who was sent to a psychiatric hospital and escaped to the West"--
Book Synopsis As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me by : Josef M. Bauer
Download or read book As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me written by Josef M. Bauer and published by Constable. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions on earth. Bauer's writing brilliantly evokes Forell's desperation in the prison camp, and his struggle for survival and terror of recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier and freedom.
Book Synopsis Escape from Siberia by : Yoann Barbereau
Download or read book Escape from Siberia written by Yoann Barbereau and published by . This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating tale - and extremely well written' - Le Figaro litteraire'A staggering testimony' - Livres HebdoNerve-wrecking' - Le Monde'A spectacular story' - L'Obs'An utterly chilling tale' - France InterYoann Barbereau was a promising official at the head of the Alliance Fran aise in Irkutsk, in Siberia, when he was imprisoned on charges of a crime he had not committed. The FSB, heir to the KGB, created a set of false evidence to incriminate him and confine him to 15 years in a Siberian prison camp. After months of abuse and deception by the authorities, he decided to end the injustice on his own account: he would escape from Russia.Escape from Siberia is the gripping tale of a flight from the depths of an icy continent, telling the epic story of how an innocent man escaped from the clutches of injustice. In a cinematic and action-packed account, Barbereau recounts his mind-boggling trek across a forest border guarded by ferocious dogs and gunmen to cross the border and reach Europe. This is an enthralling - and terrifying - account of a rogue state in action and how one man escaped the nightmare.
Book Synopsis The Songs of St Petersburg by : Amor Towles
Download or read book The Songs of St Petersburg written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.
Download or read book Donbas written by Jacques Sandulescu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The almost unbelievable, but true story of a teen-age boy's survival and triumph over hardship in a Russian slave labor camp -- ending in a breathtaking escape -- DONBAS has proven appeal for middle- and high school students and has been taught in schools. It's a book that holds kids (and adults) to the last page and gives them a new awareness and appreciation of what they've got -- and what life might one day ask of them. It's a book that puts you in its author's tattered shoes, makes you feel his cold, hunger, and pain, his homesickness and determination to live, and ask yourself: Would I survive?? “Riveting suspense . . . Once started I could not stop, once done could not forget it. Ever.” ~ The Berkshire Eagle “Simply written, direct and extraordinarily moving . . . an unassuming statement of deep affirmation.” ~ The New York Times Book Review “Excellent portrayal of a youth's indomitable spirit and will to survive.” ~ Library Journal
Book Synopsis Escape from Siberia by : Sven Christensen
Download or read book Escape from Siberia written by Sven Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”Escape from Siberia” is a story set in contemporary Russia at the time of the unsuccessful attempt to remove Gorbachev from power by the reactionary forces against glasnost and perestroika. The novel’s main characters are an American geologist, a beautiful Russian woman and a Russian Colonel. The main plot consists of a relentless pursuit of the American and Russian woman through the Far Eastern tundra and taiga, as well as the western part of the Soviet Union by the jealous and possessive colonel. Their mode of transportation involves boat, truck, a reindeer team, skis, and finally a train. On their way the American and the woman encounter adventures with wolves, bears, and ferocious Siberian blizzards. The couple also meets many helpful and generous people while the American is being introduced to Russian customs, folk music and native foods. As far as their own relationship is concerned, they were attracted to each other from the day they met. Bound by fate and peril, a deep love develops between them that endures and conquers all hardships, until...?
Book Synopsis The Life-story of a Russian Exile by : Marie Sukloff
Download or read book The Life-story of a Russian Exile written by Marie Sukloff and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Escape from Russia by : Bert Block, Jr.
Download or read book Escape from Russia written by Bert Block, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of how God miraculously saved a Christian family faced with the tragedy of disappearing forever into the Gulags of Communist Russia, and brought them instead to a new life in America.
Book Synopsis Escape From The Soviets by : Tatiana Tchernavin
Download or read book Escape From The Soviets written by Tatiana Tchernavin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape From The Soviets was written by Tatiana Tchernavin in 1933 from her hospital bed and later translated from the Russian by N. Alexander. This is a fresh account of this journey, but more importantly, an early account of what actually made it necessary; the increasing persecutions by Stalin's police state, especially as it was affecting the academic, scientific and engineering classes of the USSR from 1918-1932.
Book Synopsis The Life-story of a Russian Exile by : Marie Sukloff
Download or read book The Life-story of a Russian Exile written by Marie Sukloff and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Escape from Crimea by : Svet Dinahum
Download or read book Escape from Crimea written by Svet Dinahum and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories about the Russian occupation of Crimea and the escape from Crimea.
Book Synopsis Marie, Escape from Russia by : Mary Ann Mejdrich
Download or read book Marie, Escape from Russia written by Mary Ann Mejdrich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story set in the early 1920's, this book describes a young woman's fight to escape from Russia to the freedom of America. Losing her family to epidemics and starvation, Maria reaches Ellis Island in 1922 after 11 days aboard the S.S. Manchuria. Following a day long inspection on the Island she is escorted to a train and arrives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is met by her sister-in-law, Julia and to her brother, Rhiny, whom she has not seen for almost 10 years. Not feeling a sense of belonging, Marie searches for family only to find herself alone. She unsuccessfully tries nurses training, then moves to Chicago to be with her friend, Ann who is a Taxi dancer with ties to the mob. Eventually Ann meets her husband to be and the two young women establish themselves in Hinsdale, a wealthy community west of Chicago as domestics. In 1930 she meets a special man and finds her forever family completing her escape from all the pain and loss in her escape from Russia.
Download or read book Who Lost Russia? written by Peter Conradi and published by Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was hailed as the beginning of a new era of peace and co-operation between East and West. But in the years since, Russia has made incursions into Georgia, Ukraine and Syria, leaving the Western powers at a loss. What went wrong? Drawing on exclusive interviews with key players, Peter Conradi examines the pivotal moments of the past quarter of a century and outlines how we might get relations back on track before it’s too late. Who Lost Russia? provides the essential background to understanding the bizarre and shifting relationship between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia. This updated edition includes a new chapter on the year following the 2016 US presidential election.
