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Landestreu, An Odyssey
The Story of a Family over Time
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The eighteenth century saw Prussia, Russia, and Austria competing for prominence in Central and Eastern Europe. Each sought to expand its territory by annexing weaker states. This led to the first partition of Poland in 1772 and subsequently to...
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From Poverty to Poverty
A Scotsman Encounters Canada
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Raised by a single mother on welfare during the 1930’s depression and World War II in the Scottish Highlands, Ian spends his childhood trying to get enough to eat and stay warm. During an adolescence apprenticed to a drunken blacksmith, he also...
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The Picts of Scotland
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Once the dominant culture in the northern reaches of the British Isles, the Picts, renowned for the blue tattoos that gave them their name, were known as a formidable enemy by the armies of Roman Emperor Severus. Their prominence rose as early as...
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Icons of Russia
The Book Russia Begins From
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“Icons of Russia” is a glorious revelation of Russia’s cultural and historical heritage as well as its modern achievements gathered in a beautiful full color book. The book brings the reader a cornucopia of the achievements, skills and inventions...
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Highland Storytellers
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HIGHLAND STORYTELLERS is a work of creative nonfiction. The narrative finds its basis in the tragic story of the exodus of the Highland Scots from their homeland in the early 1800s and in their noble efforts to create a better life for themselves...
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Suddenly, a Criminal: Sixteen Years in Siberia
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"Those among us who survived," says Melanija, "did so because we were unbelievably full of the determination and will to live, and faith in our ultimate liberation, as well as because all the disasters arose unexpectedly." From her own and some...
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Teddy 'N' Me
The Blitz And Other Childhood War Memories
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Peggy (Collins) Halstead was an infant at the beginning of WW II and living in London which was subjected to an enemy bombardment that killed friends and neighbours, destroyed blocks of homes, some next door to her own home – and terrified...
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One Life, Many Chapters
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Margrit von Kleist was born in Berlin in 1924. At the age of five, she attended private school. Four years later, she went to a Lyceum (Girls secondary school) in Berlin where she studied another four years until Hitler's regime forced every...
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Peppi from a Dead End
Breaking Barriers
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"...I was surrounded by all seven, and each lashed me with a leather rein. In pain, I managed to run away across the fields, into a slightly elevated area. A German family washed my bleeding feet, bandaged the wounds, offered scramble eggs mixed...
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Polina
A Novel in Three Parts
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It is 1918 in S-, a small town not far from Moscow. Rozanov and his family have fled the capital because of food shortages and political unrest. In S- Rozanov nearly completes a manuscript he has been working on in secret—Polina. Polina is...
