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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good ++. No Jacket. B/W Drawing (frontispiece) (illustrator). William Rose, subject of this 248 page memoir, was from Manitoba. He got trapped in Europe at the outbreak of WWI. Read more about the Red Triangle. Also : Trieste, Seym, Vistula, Cracow, Carpathians, kitchen-garden, partition, street-arabs, and High Tatras. Rose was a scholar of Slavonic Studies at UBC. UNillustrated. INDEX at back. Cond : Boards are white with black (and orange) lettering. No dust jacket. End-papers are black. Volume bright and square and clean. No names nor marks. Excellent (European history) reference ! ! Quote (p. 98) : " What I saw convinced me once and for all of the nonsense we had often heard (and were still to hear) about the incapacity of the Poles as a people to deal with vital issues affecting common life. I had the good fortune to meet leaders in educational and religious life, engineers and social workers, business people and economists, and of course men of some standing in ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.