Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
A Baltic Odyssey
War and Survival
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 1996
- Category
- Personal Memoirs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895176247
- Publish Date
- Feb 1996
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552382899
- Publish Date
- Feb 1996
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Baroness Martha von Rosen, a Baltic German aristocrat, and her memories of the last year of the Second World War and the diary of her late husband, Baron Jürgen von Rosen, taken prisoner by the Allied forces during the war, together pay homage to the assertion that history can be a decidedly individual event.
Martha von Rosen has written a moving and truly heroic account of her flight from Geppertsfeld, Poland.
In his diary, the Baron gives a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. He chronicles an experience quite foreign to our conventional knowledge of the enemy in the immediate post-war years and the conduct of the Allied forces toward their captives.
About the authors
Jurgen von Rosen's profile page
Martha von Rosen's profile page
Elvi Whittaker is professor emerita of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.