This is a memoir of a Latvian English teacher who recounts what it was like to live through the momentous events that shaped the first half of the Twentieth Century.
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Through simple but poignant language she takes the reader from life in the Latvian countryside to the Revolution of 1905 in Latvia, then part of Tsarist Russia, life in Russia during the First World War and the Russian revolution, then her return to Latvia and the War of National Liberation in Latvia against Germany and Russia.
This is a memoir of a Latvian English teacher who recounts what it was like to live through the momentous events that shaped the first half of the Twentieth Century