The Latvians
The Latvians

Author: Andrejs Plakans

Publisher: Hoover Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780817993030

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This postperestroika historical narrative should contribute significantly to assessing the likelihood of Latvia's survival as an independent republic."--BOOK JACKET.

Latvia
Latvia

Author: Mara Kalnins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1849044627

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This is a concise history of Latvia thatonsiders how Latvian identity persisted despite the many invasions the country witnessed. The author considers how Latvia finally achieved independence and became a member of the EU

Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust
Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust

Author: Edward Anders

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9984993183

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Edward Anders, son of Adolf Alperovitch (1897-1941) and Erika Sheftelovitch-Meiran (1895-1992), was born in 1926 in Libau, Latvia. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. He married Joan Fleming in 1955. They had two children.

Song of Latvia
Song of Latvia

Author: V. Z. Byram

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-13

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781734122008

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With her husband's name on a hit list, the fight got personal. It is 1940 when World War II invades the lives of history teacher Mija Adamsons and her husband: Aleks, a Latvian colonel, has seen his name on a Soviet execution list. Aleks narrowly escapes when a black car pulls up at their house, but he fears for Mija and their two children. Germany plays the hero when it ousts the occupying Russians and ends their reign of terror, and a grateful Aleks trades one form of hell for another and joins the German Army, a move Mija does not support. She joins a group of resistance fighters, saving Jews from the ghetto, even as Aleks is pulled deeper and deeper into the Nazi killing machine. War has torn apart their family, physically and ideologically--will Mija and Aleks ever find their way to a new beginning?

With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows

Author: Sandra Kalniete

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781564785459

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"Sandra Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is a story of human survival, and it has become the most translated Latvian book in recent history."--Book jacket.

Latvia in World War II
Latvia in World War II

Author: Valdis O. Lumans

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780823226276

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Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000. Drawing on a wide range of sources--many brought together here for the first time--Lumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. He moves carefully through traditional sources, many of them partisan, to scholarship emerging since the end of the Cold War, to confront such issues as political loyalties, military collaboration, resistance, capitulation, the Soviet occupation, anti-Semitism, and the Latvian role in the Holocaust.