The author chronicles the experiences of his family in pre-war Poland, wartime Poland, the Soviet Union, Iran, Pakistan, India, Britain, and the United States. The Bak family was deported by the Soviets to Siberia in 1940. After Germany declared war on Russia in 1942, the family escaped from a labor camp and went to Uzbekistan, where Piotr Bak, the author's father, joined the Polish Army in Exile. The Army and civilian family members were evacuated to Iran in 1942. As a child, Eugene Bak spent five years in refugee camps in ...
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The author chronicles the experiences of his family in pre-war Poland, wartime Poland, the Soviet Union, Iran, Pakistan, India, Britain, and the United States. The Bak family was deported by the Soviets to Siberia in 1940. After Germany declared war on Russia in 1942, the family escaped from a labor camp and went to Uzbekistan, where Piotr Bak, the author's father, joined the Polish Army in Exile. The Army and civilian family members were evacuated to Iran in 1942. As a child, Eugene Bak spent five years in refugee camps in Iran, Pakistan and India. The family went to England in 1947 and immigrated to the United States in 1952, where Eugene Bak became president of a chemical plant in Franklin, PA.
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Very Good; Very Good Jacket. 2002 East European Monographs, BOulder. SIGNED by author, but only with first name "Gene", on front free endpaper, with a personal inscription, dated 2002. First Edition. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white photographs. 204 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Very tiny and faint stain on foreedge of pages and trace of same on bottom of page block. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with light wrinkling at the corners and spine ends; on-quarter-inch tear aat bottom edge of front panel. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Series: Eastern European Monographs, No. DCIX. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Signed by Author. First Edition. Includes dust jacket.
