Reading More Was Lost in wartime: A memoir from the hinge of history explains the national identity and territorial struggles of Ukraine
The 20th-century history of one unlucky corner of Eastern Europe sounds like the answer to a bad riddle. What region was once ruled by the Habsburgs, the Czechs, the Hungarians, and the Russians but now belongs to Ukraine? If you answered Transcarpathia, you've probably read More Was Lost, a memoir originally published in 1946, and a charming but ultimately tragic account of an American woman's marriage to a local baron on the eve of World War II. Reading More Was Lost is a bit like stumbling across a very sharp friend’s private diary if your friend happened to live at a hinge poin...
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