Walking since Daybreak (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Walking since Daybreak Part history, part autobiography, Eksteins relates the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II through personal stories from his family. Photos and map.
Full description- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Published: 14 September 2000
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | European History | First World War | Second World War
- ISBN 13: 9780618082315 ISBN 10: 061808231X
- Sales rank: 197,216
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Full description for Walking since Daybreak
Part history, 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. The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. 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. Eksteins's two-pronged narrative is a haunting portrait of national loss and the struggle of a displaced family caught in the maw of history.
