Walking since Daybreak A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century

Name: Walking since Daybreak A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
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ISBN: 9780618082315

ISBN-10: 061808231X

ISBN-13: 9780618082315

Edition: 2000

Authors: Modris Eksteins

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Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those millions who have surged back and forth across the lowlands bordering the Baltic Sea. The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK belongs in the great tradition of books that redefine our understanding of history, like J. R. Huizinga's THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES and…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Modris Eksteins was born in Latvia in 1943 & is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.



Prologue



The Girl with the Flaxen Hair



A Man, a Cart, a Country



Baltic Battles



Displaced



Bear Slayer Street



Odyssey


Acknowledgments


Concordance of Place Names


Notes


Index