Latvia in World War II Lumans Hardback John Wiley & Sons 9780823226276

Latvia in World War IIAuthor(s): Valdis O. Lumans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823226276, 978-0823226276\nSynopsis\nValdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. \n Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000.\n Drawing on a wide range of sourcesmany brought together here for the first timeLumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic,.