Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle AUTH-2826926 All those years he hoped

All those years he hoped that one day she would come back

As fun-seekers

eloquently written

and profoundly generous in their glimpses of strikingly private narratives

Maritime historical literature is filled with horrific descriptions of being aboard a slowly sinking ship

Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle AUTH-2826926 All those years he hopedA substantial chapter of World War II is resurrected in this sometimes tragic tale of one family's flight from their Latvian homeland and subsequent uncertainty as displaced persons. On the day Dagnija Neimane's parents married in 1940, the Soviet Russians killed the Latvian border guards, leading to the first Soviet occupation of their country. The following months culminated in the Year of Horror, with mass arrests, executions, and deportations of