Into Exile: A Life Story of War and PeaceEvershine Press Inc, 22. sept 2014 - 376 pages In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation to Siberia. "INTO EXILE" is Elin's personal account of the horrors she and her family experienced during WWII followed by an even more confusing peacetime in class-conscious post-war England while adult "DP's" and Elin struggled to find their identity. |
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