My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia

ISBN-13: 9780299308544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Donna Solecka Urbikas

Spis treści

• Preface
• Map
• Introduction
• Part 1. The Generation between the Wars
• The Haunting Past 
• Uneasy Peace 
• The Interview 
• Hiding
• Lost Lives Regained  
• Birth into War
• Polish School 
• The First World War  
• Mothers  
• Walenty and Natalia  
• Operation Marriage
• Cradling Death  
• The Farm
• Uncertainty
• Train Travel
• Part 2. Russia and Siberia
• The Lieutenant
• The Impact 
• The Arrest  
• Family Secrets
• Soviet Labor Camp
• Majorettes and Identity 
• Prison without Bars
• The Longing
• Undeserved Beauty
• Homeland  
• Fleeting Summer Breezes and Conspiracies  
• Terms of Endearment
• The Human Commodity Market
• A Less Than Normal Childhood
• Part 3. Choices and Destiny
• Amnesty 
• The Fittest Survive 
• Religion  
• The Guardian 
• A Man of Honor
• Under Naked Skies
• Not Me
• Death in Small Doses 
• Like No Other
• Numbing Existence
• War and Mental Illness  
• From Here to Hell  
• Part 4. Bittersweet Lessons
• I, as Savior?
• India
• The World at War  
• England  
• The Land of White Rice and Cinnamon
• Forever the Farm
• Reconciliation
• King Takes Rook
• Epilogue
• On Being a Mother
• Notes  
• References 
• Index