A Baltic odyssey : war and survival /

Fifty years after the end of World War II, two unique narratives chronicle the final months of that desperate struggle in very personal and explicit terms. While cruelly separated from one another, Jurgen and Martha von Rosen have written two parallel accounts about the same years. Baron von Rosen&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Von Rosen, Martha, 1904-
Other Authors: Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954, Whittaker, Elvi W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Von Rosen, Jürgen, > 1907-1954.
Von Rosen, Martha, > 1904-
1939 - 1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, German.
Immigrants > Canada > Biography.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Récits personnels allemands.
Immigrants > Canada > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Immigrants.
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Erlebnisbericht
Canada.
Esten.
Electronic books.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives > German.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Elvi Whittaker
  • The Reminiscences of Martha von Rosen. 1. From Geppertsfeld to the Oder. 2. From the Oder to the Elbe. 3. An End to Flight. 4. Life Under Soviet Occupation. 5. Marking Time. 6. New Surprises. 7. Reconnaissance. 8. Reunion. 9. The Last Return
  • The Diary of Jurgen von Rosen
  • Introduction / Elvi Whittaker. 1. Bellaria, Camp 14. 2. From Bellaria to Ile-de-France. 3. Forced Labour Camps in France. 4. Ried, Upper Bavaria
  • Life in Canada: The Open World / Martha von Rosen
  • Editor's Afterword: Some Anthropological Reflections on Ethnography, War, Ethnicity and Other Matters.

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