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Constantin C. Giurescu was Romania's leading historian and author of the seminal work The Background of the Romanian People. His granddaughter's exciting story of this exceptional man and his family follows their battles in war-torn Romania from 1900 to nov the Soviet Union. An enlightened modern culture is dismantled with the 1946 Communist takeover of Romania, and Constantin is restricted to the notorious Sighet penitentiary. Drawing on her grandfather's prison journal (which was devote a wine glass jar, buried in a garden, then smuggled out of the country by Dr. Paul E. Michelson who provides the foreward because of this booklet), private characters and her own research, Dr. Giurescu writes of the legacy from the move of the hundred years to nov Communism. We see the rise of modern Romania, the misery of World War I, the blossoming of its culture between your wars, and then the sellout of Eastern European countries to Russia after World War II. Within this sweeping bill, we see not only its effects socially and culturally, but the triumph in its wake: a guy and his people who reclaim better lives for themselves, and in the process, teach us a lessons in endurance, persistence, and can not and then make it through, but to prosper.
