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A Latvian Tale of Blood and Treasure
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-01-03
主題Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN15412074679781541207462
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PS1avgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The darkest day of the year, winter solstice. The darkest year of the era, 1940 Latvia. Still, seventeen-year-old Karlis Perkons and friends, The Nonchalants, vow to resist the Russian occupation. Oaths are tested when Peters Kalnins is interrogated at the Corner House, Eriks Gailis flees to the forest, and Karlis Perkons is conscripted to the Red Army. Tensions hit home, where Karlis shares his room with uprooted Hugo Krumins, who repays him by stealing Karlis's girl. Boys become radicalized, trading dreams of the Art Academy for schemes to get guns, and grasping a mysterious fortitude found in deep forest lore. Can solstice mumming, Yule logs, herbal medicinals and falling in love stand up against interrogation, torture, disappearances and rumors of worse to come? Pray the Germans will invade in time to save them from Stalin's atrocities. But when the Nazis do come, that's who Karlis will be sent to fight.Witch Hammer is Book II in the historical fictional series The Linden Tree & the Legionnaire, inspired by the art and accounts of Latvian Legionnaire Karlis Smiltens.