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A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History by Bernard Wasserstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book. Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserst
Who reads A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bernard Wasserstein
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781802061413
- Category
- nonfiction