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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810327003321

Autore

Saporito Anastasia V. <1928-2007, >

Titolo

Ancient furies : a young girl's struggles in the crossfire of World War II / / Anastasia V. Saporito with Donald L. Saporito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61234-634-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

940.5481497

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Serbia - Belgrade

Russians - Serbia - Belgrade

Belgrade (Serbia) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

The early years -- School days -- War clouds -- Childhood ends -- The move to Dedinye -- Life in Dedinye -- Adolescence ends -- War comes to Belgrade -- The destruction of Belgrade -- Invasion -- Occupation -- Jovan -- Kolya -- Roach Manor -- Farewell, my Belgrade -- Maria and Rosa -- Hans von Staate -- The labor camps -- Brutality and murder -- The price of liberation -- Blankenburg am Harz -- Hamburg -- Frankfurt -- The end of the beginning.

Sommario/riassunto

Wealth and family privilege are no match for the brutal forward march of two armies intent on eliminating each other. As a teenager, Anastasia Saporito discovered just that truth as she and her family found themselves exiled, vulnerable, and no longer able to call on their societal standing and accumulated riches as the Soviet and German armies converged during World War II. Saporito recounts in vivid detail the difficulties of her childhood as the daughter of White Russian aristocrats forced to flee their native Russia for refuge in Yugoslavia. In Ancient Furies