Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served
in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant
memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14,
her participation in resistance activities during the War, her
bittersweet marriage to revolutionary leader "Orlan," her struggle
against Stalinist forces, and her captures by and escapes from the
KGB. In the 1950s when she escaped to the West, she began these
memoirs, which were not published in Ukrainian until after the fall
of the Soviet Union. Their appearance in Ukrainian caused a
sensation, as she remains the only survivor of the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army (UPA) to have told her tale, now offered in English.
Pyskir, whose escape came at the cost of her husband, children, and
family, recreates in her memoir an astonishing account of her
experiences as a Ukrainian partisan, a woman, a wife, a mother, and
an outcast from her own land. The book contains maps, many of the
author's own photographs, and a foreword by John A. Armstrong.
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