The Reluctant Exiles : Latvians in the West after World War II / Andrejs Plakans
The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world.The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a descriptio...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
Volume 45. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (741 pages) |
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