Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II - Brossura

Pyskir, Maria Savchyn

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ISBN 10: 0786407646 ISBN 13: 9780786407644

Casa editrice: McFarland Publishing, 2001

Riassunto

Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14, her participation in resistance activities during the War, her bittersweet marriage to revolutionary leader "Orlan," her struggle against Stalinist forces, and her captures by and escapes from the KGB. In the 1950s when she escaped to the West, she began these memoirs, which were not published in Ukrainian until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Their appearance in Ukrainian caused a sensation, as she remains the only survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) to have told her tale, now offered in English. Pyskir, whose escape came at the cost of her husband, children, and family, recreates in her memoir an astonishing account of her experiences as a Ukrainian partisan, a woman, a wife, a mother, and an outcast from her own land. The book contains maps, many of the author's own photographs, and a foreword by John A. Armstrong.

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This dramatic and poignant memoir tells of Maria's recruitment into underground service at the age of fourteen, her participation in resistance activities during the War, captures and escapes from the KGB and many other accounts.

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• Editore: McFarland Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786407646
• ISBN 13: 9780786407644
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 235