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A Faraway Country
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Czechoslovakia 1938-39. The annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany, its catastrophic effect on a family living in Prague, the political fallout of appeasement. The book ends with the invasion of Czrchoslovakia in March 1939.
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Ruth Boswell
Film & TV Producer, Publisher, Writer. This is her third novel.
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