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My Marshal Baton Was Made of... Naphthalene: Another Kind of Memoir

My Marshal Baton Was Made of... Naphthalene: Another Kind of Memoir

Baron, Mihai Mike

Paperback

Historical FiguresHumor

ISBN13: 9798185423837
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1988, a 32-year-old economist walked into the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade to ask for political asylum - on the one day it happened to be closed.

That is exactly the kind of luck Mihai Baron had. And yet, somehow, he made it out.

My Marshal Baton Was Made of... Naphthalene is the true story of one man's escape from communist Romania, told with a wit so dry you'll laugh before you realize you should be crying. Forced out of his job for looking West, Mihai left behind a wife and son, crossed Yugoslavia with a briefcase and a half-baked plan, and spent eighteen months in the Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria - where officials inspected men's hands for calluses to see who was fit to dig ditches. He wore gloves to hide his office-worker's hands. He dug the ditches anyway.

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