May You Live In Interesting Times -- Purported Chinese Curse

 

May You Live In Interesting Times -- purported Chinese curse. In the process of wrapping up my Covid winter project, a four volume family history and archive distilled from nine hundred family photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.

This collection includes hundreds of family photographs and letters, as well as documents from Russia's post-Tsarist Bolshevik government, the Russian White Army, assorted military officials during the Russian Civil War, the French Consul of Constantinople, the British and French Red Cross Missions in Constantinople, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the German occupation government of Yugoslavia, the Nazi Third Reich, the U.S. Military Government of Germany, the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization, the U.S. Displaced Persons Commission, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, and any number of private refugee relief organizations.

First two volumes covering the years 1918 to 1945 have been published by Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. Blue Parrot Books will publish the third volume, 1945 to 1950, July 4th. The final volume, covering the 1950s, to be published this fall by Blue Parrot Books.

May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950

Coming July 4th from Seattle's Blue Parrot Books. May You Live In Interesting Times: A Cautionary Tale: Archive of Family Photographs and Documents Circa 1945 to 1950. By Michael Ostrogorsky, Ph.D.

This is the third of a four volume family history and archive distilled from a collection of 900 photos, letters, and documents that survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, military coups, an invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and World War II Allied bombing.

This third volume presents the collection covering the immediate post-World War II years, 1945 to 1950, when my family lived in refugee camps in Kempten, Germany, in the American zone of occupied Germany. Having lost their homes to revolution and war, the family busied themselves searching for a new home, from America to Tanzania. Most importantly for me, this was also the time my mother and my father happened to walk into the same café in Kempten and ended up dancing with each other.

This volume includes photographs, letters, and documents issued by the U.S. Military Government of Germany, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the International Refugee Organization, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, assorted consulates, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, and any number of private refugee relief organizations, as well as scores of letters to friends around the world seeking help to secure a new home.

ISBN 9780578896793 8.5 x 11.0 hardcover. 476 pages.

Available for pre-order now from your favorite bookseller or the Blue Parrot Books webstore.