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From The Crusades to Gulag and Beyond

From The Crusades to Gulag and Beyond

From The Crusades to Gulag and Beyond

Valery G. Yankovsky

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2007
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9780615148519
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Red-bearded bandits- Tiger hunts in Manchuria- Exotic customs of the Far East- the terror of imprisonment in the infamous Gulags- find these and more in this first-hand memoir by a man who lived it all. Ranging from the Yankovsky Peninsula near Vladivostok in Russia, to Shanghai and Harbin, finally escaping to build Novina, a fabulous 'Russian Camelot' in the mountains of north Korea, which was visited by Yul Brynner and his family when he was a youth. Readers of Rock Brynner’s book 'Empire and Odyssey' will want this big volume of true tales of danger, courage, romance and adventure. A testament to many men and women determined to survive, prosper and be free against terrible odds. Non-fiction, 336 pages with over 80 pages of vintage photographs and 3 Family Trees. 3

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