"For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women--among them an orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist--who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--

Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II, as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond between mother and older daughter, one that Donna would struggle to find with either of them.
In 1940, Janina Ślarzynska and her five-year-old daughter Mira were taken by Soviet secret...

Journalist Greg Archer examines his Polish family's mind-bending odyssey of the 1940s. In the process, he exposes one of the most under-reported events of the 20th century--Stalin's mass deportation of nearly two million Polish citizens to the Siberian Gulags."--

"There is perhaps no starker example of the domestic costs and blindspots of America's modern military exploits than the continued practice of deporting men and women who have served in our armed forces. In this book, J. Malcolm Garcia reports from across the country and abroad, profiling veterans who have been deported, as well as the families and friends they have left behind. Without a Country analyzes the political and cultural climate that has...

Thousand kilometers journey into the unknown. They were forced to Soviet slave labor camps, fought for their lives against hunger, disease and terrible Siberian frosts. They experienced unimaginable suffering, but nothing was able to defeat them. Anna Herbich poignantly shows how lives fight for survival on the inhuman land. It allows us to see the drama of the Soviet exile through women's eyes who miraculously survived the Siberian penal servitude....

A collection of interviews Wieslaw Adamczyk and Barbara Dominiczak conducted with people who, as a child, survived the deportation into the Soviet Union. Illustrated with photographs and diary pages.

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of the worst airplane disaster in California's history, which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens-farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth...

The shocking reality of Tijuana's 'Zona Norte, ' created by failed U.S. immigration policy. Follows U.S. deportees in Tijuana as they struggle to survive a cartel war zone, living in cardboard shacks and sewer pipes, creating an ever-expanding underworld of exiles.

"Apolonia Dobkowska miała odziedziczyć wielki majątek ziemski, wyjść za mąż za swojego ukochanego Jerzego i wieść szczęśliwe życie. Niespodziewanie 10 lutego 1940 roku została wraz z całą rodziną wsadzona do towarowego pociągu i wywieziona pięć tysięcy kilometrów od domu. Młoda dziewczyna zmieniła komnaty swojego dworu w Szczepankowie na zmarzniętą ziemię Syberii. Apolonia podejmie nieludzki wysiłek, aby zapewnić przetrwanie...