I picked this book out from an Audible 2-for-1 sale, and went into it a bit colder than perhaps I should have been. The basic premise is thus: Catherine the Great brought over a large community of Germans to farm Russia, now known as Ukraine. The communities were hard working and generationally insular, and though they spoke Russian, they considered themselves to be essentially German. More importantly, both the Russians and the Nazis considered them to be Germans. As WWII heated up, many of these […]
Run with the Wolves, or Wait for the Bears?
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
