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Modris Eksteins Walking Since Daybreak
Key Porter Books No Date 1552631885 / 9781552631881 Paperback New
"Winner of the Pearson Writer`s Trust Award for Non-Fiction. Part history and part autobiography, Walking Since Daybreak tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during and after World War II. The immense cataclysm of World War II has no precedent in human history: 28 million Russians died, 10 million Germans, 6 million Jews and several hundred thousand French, English, Americans and Canadians. The Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, briefly independent between the wars, were devastated and many of their inhabitants scattered to the ends of the earth. As Eksteins` parallel narrative approaches its startling climax, the reader learns yet again that in historical catastrophes blame and praise are nearly impossible to assign. 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 Jacob Burckhardt`s The Renaissance in Italy. James Carroll declared Ekstei... ID: mon0000120918"
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9.78 USD
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Modris Eksteins Walking Since Daybreak
Key Porter 1999 1552630196 / 9781552630198 Hardcover Very Good
"'() For thousands of years, the windswept plains of the eastern Baltic attracted migrant tribes from all over Eurasia. These peoples lived together, sometimes uneasily, sometimes at peace, forging the multiethnic cultures of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. The last two centuries have brought one army after another to the Baltic, led by Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, Hitler's generals, and Stalin's field marshals. In the wake of World War II, the multiethnic cultures of the Baltic splintered, and millions of citizens, including Canadian historian Modris Eksteins, born in Latvia in 1943, were sent into flight. Eksteins's narrative, haunted by ghosts and unconventional in structure, embraces many stories. At one level, he offers a requiem for the Baltic past. At another, he composes a personal history of his family, driven so far from its homeland. At yet another, he ponders the nature of history itself in a tale that ''must reflect the loss of authority, of history as ideal'''' ID: mon0000042263"
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