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From the Oder to the Bitterroot : memories of an uncommon life / Werner H. Will.
Author
Will, Werner H., 1931-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Missoula, Montana : Werner Will, [2011]
Description
xvi, 321 pages : map, portraits ; 22 cm
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E184.G3 W465 2011
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Will, Werner H. 1931-
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Western Illinois University
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Faculty
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Biography
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German Americans
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Biography
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Immigrants
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United States
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Biography
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World War, 1939-1945
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Personal narratives, German
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Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
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Biography
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Germany (East)
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Biography
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Refugees
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Luxembourg
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Biography
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College teachers
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Illinois
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Macomb
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Bitterroot River Valley (Mont.)
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Summary note
"The book chronicles the true-life adventure of a man who refused to play the hand that fate dealt him, forging a life of his own instead. Born into a poor family of intinerant farmers in an eastern province of Germany, Werner Will grew up knowing only what the Third Reich had taught him. After experiencing first-hand the onslaught of the conquering Russian army, he and his family were forcible moved from their now-Polish home and relocated across the Oder River to East Germany. But life in the communist East varied little from that of Nazi Germany and Mr. Will undertook a daring escape to the West, settling in rural Luxembourg. Wanting to be more than a hired man like his father, he turned west again, crossing the ocean to a new world--and a new life--in the United States. With the help of American Mennonites, he worked his way up from a farm hand without a high school education to earning a Ph. D. in German literature and a tenured university position. Along the way, he acquired a loving wife, four children and four grandchildren. After retirement, Mr. Will and his wife moved to the Bitterroot Valley in Montana--from whence the book gets its name"--Back cover.
ISBN
9780615514635 ((paperback))
0615514634 ((paperback))
LCCN
2013474582
OCLC
955267975
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