{"product_id":"9781913393670","title":"The Last Lancer","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Czerkawska, Catherine \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMigration, immigration \u0026amp; emigration\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 23 February 2023 by Saraband in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 199 x 22 | 186g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 near Lwow, in Polish Galicia, on a farm with fertile grain fields and orchards. He was the son of a Polish lancer-one of the famous cavalrymen who carried forward the legacy of the hussar knights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there would be no idyllic childhood for young Julian. Soviet annexation and then, in 1941, the German occupation of Lwow changed everything. At the age of eighteen, he was sent to a labour camp. Fortunate to escape after the war with his life, eventually he made his way to the UK. Here, he married and started a family, but an ache remained for the people and places of his childhood memories, even if he spoke of them only rarely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, Putins war in Ukraine and the sight of refugees passing through Lviv-the former Polish city of Lwow-added urgency to his writer daughter Catherines project of a lifetime, to try to uncover for herself everything that had been lost a generation before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Last Lancer pieces together glimpses of how the Czerkawski family lived and died in a region with a proud but turbulent history. It sheds light on their trauma, at the same time offering a deep and very personal understanding of a troubled place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40578928836743,"sku":"9781913393670","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781913393670_c0cbe40c-c9a8-4aa2-a8df-c11e0a0e36b7.jpg?v=1741629112","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781913393670","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}