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(More customer reviews)Stefan Waydenfeld's memoir is an outstanding contribution to World War II history. Originally published in Britain, in a small press run, THE ICE ROAD received outstanding reviews (including THE FINANCIAL TIMES) before disappearing from the market.
It will be hard for the reader to put this book down. Told without rancor, with smooth-flowing detail, this is also a story about coming of age, albeit in a world surrounded by tragedy.
Stefan Weidenfeld was one of the lucky ones - tens of thousands of Polish citizens were deported to the Soviet hinterlands, never to emerge and becoming unknown and ephemeral footnotes to history. This book is a monument to all of those who rode the freight cars East into oblivion.
Hopefully, this brilliant book will finally receive the attention it deserves.
George F Cholewczynski
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In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians-arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939-were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north.
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