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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Modris Eksteins; Modris Eksteins; Modris Eksteins |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Modris Eksteins |
ISBN: | 0395937477 9780395937471 061808231X 9780618082315 |
OCLC Number: | 40668332 |
Notes: | "A Peter Davison book." Includes maps of the Greater Baltic area in 1914 and today on endpapers. |
Awards: | Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, 1999. |
Description: | xiv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Prologue -- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair -- A Man, a Cart, a Country -- Baltic Battles -- Displaced -- Bear Slayer Street -- Odyssey -- Concordance of Place Names. |
Responsibility: | Modris Eksteins. |
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Abstract:
"Part History and 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." "As Eksteins's two-pronged narrative approaches its huge climax, the reader learns yet again that in historical catastrophes blame and praise are nearly impossible to assign."--Jacket.
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