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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