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Slovenia 1945
Memories of Death and Survival After World War II
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One of the most moving and tragic diaspora stories of WWII, "Slovenia 1945" follows the fate of a strongly Catholic and non-Communist community in Slovenia, including members of the anti-Communist Home Guard 'domobranci', caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans in WWII and the problems of the post-war settlement. Thousands were returned to face death and exile at the hands of their war-time enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Yet the story of exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. The authors call on more than half a century of research and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell their stories. 'Very valuable...extremely interesting...the material is absolutely fascinating and historically very important' - Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, Founder-Director, University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
"an interesting and strirring story of the survival of people scattered over the world by cruel times" - Drago Jancar, Slovenia's most read author "extraordinarily interesting..heart-rending...particularly moving..it shows the resilience of the human spirit in a finer light than I can remember reading elsewhere," Nigel Nicolson. "an intensely moving and compelling narrative..I am thankful that these courageous people have at last found so able and fluent a chronicler." Nikolai Tolstoy, author of the controversial "The Minister and the Massacre", which blamed Harold Macmillan for the forced repatriations. "This narrative is doubly valuable: we learn here not merely about a hidden and shameful episode in our own history; but also much about a valiant new partner in the EU: Slovenia." - Peter J Conradi"