Vic Evans

Miriam

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Miriam Rabin was born in Wrexham, North Wales, at the turn of the twentieth century, a village schoolteacher and later wife of a hill farmer. Ten years after her husband's death, she is a major in the NKVD secret police in Stalinist Russia, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and an elite in her field. Her political fervour, passions, heartbreak, and determination lead her along this path through the most troubled times of the twentieth century, times which find her robbed of her country, her loved ones, and very far from home.A highly-researched and exquisitely-told novel which explores the most treacherous and politically charged moments in… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-78375-659-9
EAN: 9781783756599
Produktnummer: 16568034
Verlag: Accent Pr Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 370 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.1 cm 408 g
Gewicht: 408

Über den Autor

I have worked in the aircraft industry and in engineering for twenty-nine years and taught in secondary schools for twenty years. I gained a BA Hons. with the Open University and an MA from the University of Kent at Canterbury. In this novel I draw on my grandfather's recollections of stories relayed to him by his father who lived through the Ukrainian expulsions as his family fled tsarist persecution and of my aunt, his daughter, who had been a schoolteacher in a pit village in North Wales. I also draw on conversations and recollections of two men from the town of Wrexham where I grew up who fought in Spain in the Civil War and also on first hand accounts and hearsay of the Gresford pit disaster. I have three children and four grandchildren.