Barbed Wire And Babushkas

Author : Paul Grogan
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780753522783
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire and Babushkas written by Paul Grogan and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor was clearly concerned about our plans to travel along the border, promising that the guards would shoot us on sight: 'They will be made heroes, with medals from Moscow,' he thundered, slapping his chest, ' but you will be dead!' And with that, he moulded his hands around an imaginary machine gun and sprayed our chests with an impressive salvo of spittle. For years they'd dreamed of packing in their day-jobs and travelling one of the world's greatest rivers, so long as it was somewhere warm. Siberia seemed like the obvious choice... Starting from high in the mountains of northern Mongolia, Paul Grogan and travelling companion Richard Boddington set out to make the first source-to-sea descent of Siberia's 4,400km Amur River, known in China as The Black Dragon. After wading up-stream for five days to reach the source, they begin their epic, four-month journey knowing virtually nothing about the region they'll be travelling through, or even where they'll be able to find food along the way. One of the few things they do know about the river is that for almost 2,000km if forms the long-disputed border between Russia and China. the scene of armed conflict up until the late 1980's, it's still considered off-limits, even to Russians. Never sure if they'll be able to continue around the next bend, the pair face guns, gunboats and arrest at every turn, and are forbidden to even set foot in Chinese territory. But beyond this fascade of military might they find a generous, warm-hearted people with a wicked sense of humour and an unhealthy predilection fir poetry, pig fat and home-made vodka. With sun, sauna's and dancing girls also high on the agenda, they are soon swept along by life on the river and the occasional 4 a.m. flood.

Author : Marcel Krueger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786723840
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babushka's Journey written by Marcel Krueger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cacilie, Cilly for short, into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has interwoven contemporary landscape and family history into an evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow-covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the Soviet labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. Chasing the sights, sounds and voices of past and present along this route, the author has created both fictionalised historical narrative and contemporary travelogue, covering two different journeys that follow the same path. As he stumbles through the bars of present-day Poland and dreams on the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, Krueger forges an authentic retelling of Cilly's tragic yet hopeful story, discovering that her journey reflects tens of thousands of similar personal histories, which continue to haunt Germany, Poland and Russia today.

Author : Róisín Healy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042975597X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past written by Róisín Healy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "new mobilities paradigm" which emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century has identified mobility as a process intrinsic to the human experience and fundamental to the formation of social and political structures. This volume breaks new ground by demonstrating the role of the journey as a key motor of human development in Russia, central and east Europe in the modern period. It does so by means of twelve case studies that examine different types of movement, both voluntary and involuntary, temporary and permanent, short- and long-distance, into, out of, and around the region.

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567192
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire written by Reviel Netz and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Author : Anita Buck
Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
ISBN 13 : 9780878391134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind Barbed Wire written by Anita Buck and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, and how the POW's contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.

Author : Glenna Luschei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780318183541
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk & Barbed Wire written by Glenna Luschei and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerhard Hennes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937824044
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Barbed Wire written by Gerhard Hennes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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