Latvia in World War II

by Valdis Lumans

Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823226271
• ISBN13: 9780823226276
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"