Tunnels to Freedom: Nineteenth Century Russia/Ukraine Awna's Journey

ISBN-10: 1460951840
ISBN-13: 9781460951842
Category: Fiction
Pages: 242
Language: English
Published: 2011-04-01
Publisher: CreateSpace
Author: Nancy L. Novak

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Tunnels to Freedom is a story about a three generations 19th century Russian/Ukraine peasant family. A young university student the son of a wealthy political father is away at school when his family is murdered by 'unknown raiders' that are also out to kill him. He escapes and changes his identity. During his travels, he meets a young nursing student, her parents also murdered by the same unknown raiders. They travel together and meet a peasant family that teaches them how to become wheat farmers, growing wheat for Russia. They marry, and raise two sons. The oldest son marries and raises three children. Through the years, their wheat fields are set on fire several times by the 'unknown raiders'. At the turn of the century, the 'unknown raiders' massacred the peasants villiages, and the family manages to escape thru a makeshift tunnel, and travel on foot across five different countries seeking a safe place to live and freedom for their children. They come upon an American Medical Missionary woman that offers them help in coming to America. The men work in the shipyards in Greece to earn money to pay for the family's voyage across the Northern Atlantic Ocean on a trawler fishing vessel's 'Maiden Voyage' and get caught in a terrifying hurricane.

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