White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

by Olga Ilyin

Book Overview

FROM THE DUST JACKET: "WHITE ROAD. THIS IS AN ENTHRALLING SLICE OF PERSONAL HISTORY THAT CHRONICLES THE ONSET OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, FOLLOWS THAT PATH OF RETREAT OF THE WHITE ARMY, AND INVOLVES US... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030000785
• ISBN13: 9780030000782
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Extraordinary Journey for the Reader

I consider the day I found this book in a used book store as perhaps the luckiest "book finding" day of my life. Written in almost lyrical prose, this is a heart stopping, gut wrenching, life-affirming adventure in real life. If you think you understand what the Russian people went through during and after the Bolshevik revolution, you don't. This is history written firsthand; enduring love for country, fellow man, and most of all husband and child; this is heroism, and triumph over appalling fear; and most of all, a story of enduring and unquenchable spirit.