CRATER’S EDGE
A Family’s Epic Journey Through Wartime Russia
Michał Giedroyć
Foreword by Norman Davies “There are very few survivors of World War II who can match his breadth of knowledge, or produce an account of such class.”
In September 1939, as a ten year old boy, the author watched the Russian security police seize his home in eastern Poland. His father was imprisoned, and Michał, with his mother and two sisters, were transported in cattle trucks to the wastes of Soviet Siberia, with hundreds of thousands of other deportees. 'Here, by the will of the rulers of the Soviet Empire, we were to toil and die.'
More than two years of penury and hunger on a collective farm brought them to the brink of extinction. However, exhausted, half starved and ill, Michał's mother and her children set off on a second gruelling journey that would take them across Central Asia to Persia, the Middle East, and finally England.
The author’s experiences were shared by many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of other displaced people, but few have had an opportunity to tell their story and to tell it so well.
ISBN: 978-1-903071-24-3
Size: 234 x 156 mm
Binding: Hardback
Format: 208 pages + 16 photographs
Publication: 1st April 2010
Price: £19.99
