Baltic Countdown

A Nation Vanishes

By: Peggie Benton, Edward Crankshaw (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 28 November 2023

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A firsthand account of Latvia during World War II: "A British diplomat's wife's beautifully observed eye-witness account of the Soviet occupation." -Cond Nast Traveler

With her husband in the British Foreign Service, Peggie Benton had already lived through the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938 and had settled comfortably into the day-to-day life of Riga, the capital of Latvia. But the country's uneasy history with Russia and tensions brewing with Germany just prior to the outbreak of World War II meant their peace was not to last.

In this compelling memoir, Benton captures both the small details of life in the city-the markets, the winter customs, the Baltic character-and the terrifying moments during the evacuation of Baltic Germans and the Soviet invasion that left the couple homeless and with an uncertain fate. Their world comes crashing down during the chaos of war, and the Bentons are forced to flee more than twenty-two thousand miles eastward across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Japan, then through Canada to England, crossing both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Baltic Countdown is a tribute to the people of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia-their resilience through the trials of history and their never-ending hope of independence.

"An engaging account in its own right... A bittersweet memoir of a city on the edge of disaster. Her compelling depiction of Riga and its inhabitants conjures up a world that is almost unknown in the West." -Studies in Intelligence, CIA journal

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