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About the Book:
Leaving home. Taking only what could be
carried. Not knowing when we would return, if ever. It was the choice
made by millions, a choice imposed by war. The alternative was death.
Or worse. The unknown was better.
So begins this story of survival at impossible
odds.
Part history and part memoir, this book takes
us into the surreal world of war as seen through a child's eyes, but
reflected in adulthood in the very different light of retrospect many
years later. It is the story of perseverance, in the face of
overwhelming peril, that will touch the reader with its sincerity,
poignancy, and warmth.
Numerous books about the civilian World War Two
experience deal with the Holocaust and Nazi crimes against humanity.
Very few address the horrors implemented by Soviet Russia and the
plight of thousands—hundreds of thousands—who fled to escape them.
This book is one of those few.
About the Author:
Al Karasa lived through the horrors of World
War Two in Europe as a child and witnessed, first hand, man's
inhumanity to man on a cataclysmic scale. It is stuff of which
nightmares are made.
The author learned, used and forgot the
rudiments of more languages by age seventeen than most of us engage in
a lifetime. Changing countries more often than the stages of the moon
became the norm during his family's escape westward.
This is the story of that escape.
For more about the author and his work, visit
www.alsbooks.com.
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