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From Hell to Freedom, Croatian Odyssey to Canada is the true story of Nikola Plesa. The Canadian entrepreneur, who lives in Calgary, Alberta, was born and raised in Croatia. But his fatherland was not free during those years and neither were his people. As a child he witnessed the killings of thousand of countrymen who fled from the communist partisans to Bleiburg (Austria). And after the end of the Second World War his home-country was under the communist dictatorship of Tito. Always hungry, suppressed and angry he wanted to run away even as a child. But he had to wait until adulthood to make his escape over the treacherous Karawanken Alps to Freedom. Nikola's biography of life in the Balkans as a Croatian from the thirties to the mid-fifties is an account of the domination by Serbs. It is also a story of agony, death and tears. Even after coming to Canada, for more than thirty years nightmares chased his memories. And then there was always the question of Istina , which is a Croatian word and means truth . Victors write history, he says. For that reason I wanted to tell my side of Istina, the way I experienced and witnessed events - a truth which still lies hidden in a countryside soaked in blood.

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The author Ursula Tillmann was born and raised in Germany. She immigrated as a teenager to Canada and studied journalism in Calgary, Alberta. For more than twenty years Ursula worked for Canadian and European newspaper and magazines focusing on politics, history, investigative journalism and human interest stories. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, she reported extensively about changes in Eastern Europe. Ursula is the recipient of several photography, news-writing and poetry awards. Her novel Undressing Shadows , the story of two women in postwar Germany was published in the spring of 2013. She has also published a selection of her poetry Gone to Gemaris as well as two photography books. Now a Canadian citizen, Ursula lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains, in Canmore, Alberta.

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