Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile

by Daniel Ford

The Second World War -- the worst thing that ever happened. It began in September 1939, with Hitler's Wehrmacht invading Poland from the west, while Stalin's Red Army stormed in from the east. Among their victims was a five-year-old named Basia Deszberg. The Russians shot her father and brother in the Katyn Forest, then loaded Basia, her sister, and her mother into a cattle car for a horrific three-week journey to the steppes of Kazakhstan, there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149472989X
• ISBN13: 9781494729899
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"