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The Last Lancer: A Story of Loss and Survival in Poland and Ukraine, Czerkawska,
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 1913393674
- Publication Name
- Saraband / Contraband
- Book Title
- Last Lancer : a Story of Loss and Survival in Poland and Ukraine
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Saraband / Contraband
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, Europe / Poland
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic Polish lancer: one of the skilled cavalrymen who were proud of their descent from the legendary 'winger hussars' with their spectacular eagle feather armour. After an idyllic and undeniably privileged rural childhood, family and military upheavals would change Julian's life forever. His eccentric and artistic family were torn apart by successive Soviet and German occupations. His teenage years involved work as a courier for the Resistance, participation in the Warsaw Uprising, and a spell in a Nazi labour camp. Fortunate to escape with his life, he made his way to the UK as a refugee, where he married and eventually acquired British citizenship. But an intense affection for the vanished people and places of his childhood memories remained. In 2022, Putin's war in Ukraine and the sight of refugees passing through Lviv added urgency to his writer daughter Catherine's project of a lifetime, to try to uncover for herself everything that had been lost a generation before. The Last Lancer pieces together beguiling glimpses of how the Czerkawski family lived and died in a region with a proud but turbulent history. It sheds light on their trauma, at the same time offering a deep, personal understanding of what was, and continues to be, a troubled place.
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Publisher
Saraband / Contraband
ISBN-10
1913393674
ISBN-13
9781913393670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057259226
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Lancer : a Story of Loss and Survival in Poland and Ukraine
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Europe / Poland
Publication Year
2023
Genre
History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dk4420
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'Poignant and powerful. One family's history comes into sharp focus against the tragic events of the present.', Praise for The Last Lancer "Poignant and powerful. One family's history comes into sharp focus against the tragic events of the present." Olga Wojtas Praise for A Proper Person to Be Detained "Turns difficult family subject matter into a fascinating book, full of resonance." Irish Times "An emotional journey into a family's past ... written with empathy, insight and warmth." Family Tree Magazine "A champion of the under-represented, overlooked, and persecuted, Czerkawska is rightly known as one of the most interesting and individual historical novelists we have, able to find a relatable way to tell a story that may have been overlooked otherwise." Scots Whay Hae
Dewey Decimal
943.805092
Dewey Edition
23
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