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Unknown War: The Latvian National Partis

By Kalnin, Peter

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ISBN: 9984996166 Publisher: Domas Speks Published: 2000

Notes from Magers and Quinn:
This is a substantial addition to the historical literature of the part of Europe that Timothy Snyder called the Bloodlands. It consists mainly of photographs, with detailed captions, of people and documents from the guerilla war that Latvians fought against the Soviets from the end of World War II until 1956. Many of these records came from the archives of the security agencies and secret police of Soviet-occupied Latvia, which were opened when the country regained independence in 1991, and yielded a complete chronology of the anti-Soviet armed resistance as its supporters were hunted down. Other records were kept, secretly, by the partisans' families through the Soviet period and first saw the li.