Lest We Forget

Lest we forget:  100 years ago, tomorrow, on 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo. On August 1 Germany declared war on Russia. But by that time, the beginning of World War I,  Gershon Rasputnis of “Klara’s Journey,” was in America. Little did he know it would be seven years until his family was reunited. For a story of “betrayal, drama and love,” check out the historical novel, Klara’s Journey,” also a gripping saga of Russia’s Civil War that followed WWI. Wherever books are sold: ,” Amazon.com .http://amzn.to/13Sp769 . Ebook formats, nook, ipad, Kobo, etc, Follow me on twitter @bengfrank .

 

This story won't go away!

1. The story that won’t go away. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands have fled their homes amid rising violence, insecurity and crime in areas of eastern Ukraine that are under the control of pro-Russia armed groups, according to the UN as cited in NYT. Klara Rasputnis left Ukraine also when there was a “reign of fear, if not of terror.” You can read this story of “betrayal, drama and love,” in “Klara’s Journey,” Amazon.com .http://amzn.to/13Sp769  ,also an ebook, Follow me on twitter @bengfrank .

 

the new Cold War

1. A civil war and a new Cold War in 2014?  In 1917, a civil war and the beginnings of a Cold War occurred in the days when Klara Rasputnis left Odessa after the October Bolshevik Revolution. Going to Moscow, she boards the Trans-Siberian railway in a story of “betrayal, drama and love.” For a gripping saga of Russia’s civil war, check out “Klara’s Journey,” (Marion Street Press),  Amazon.com .http://amzn.to/13Sp769   ,also an ebook, Follow me on twitter @bengfrank .

 

 

D-Day & "Klara's Journey

D-Day. One bright June morning, actually the Sixth of June, 1944 our elementary school  teacher, Mrs. Woods, asked us to stand up and say a silent prayer for our troops who had just landed in Normandy, France. A week later I was to learn that Cousin Manny Charach, landed on those beaches on D+4. A year before my Aunt Clara took me to see a war-time movie, called ”This is the Army.” She cried, her son Manny was in the service in England. Little did I know that 70 years later, I would write a book about her, called, “Klara’s Journey.” .http://amzn.to/13Sp769