How Far Away Is Never (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439241721)

The most vivid and astonishing chronicle of survival. Margaret reveals experiences that had a profound impact on her life. Violently uprooted from her ancestral homeland her family set on a journey to evade Tito's communist that terrorized Croatia. The trail to freedom was violent and full of traps. While thousands of soldiers and civilians moved toward Austria Tito's partisans and their allies constantly attacked killing everyone in sight. It is there that her childhood froze in time. With loss of her parents and sister young Margaret became an orphan whose world came to an abrupt end. All seemed lost and frozen in the fields of Karavanken Alps. Her thoughts retreated to the deepest recesses of her mind until political change swept across Europe and rebirth of a proud nation that suffered under foreign domination surfaced. This book is a witness to human endurance sacrifice a shining example of a soul that never lost hope or will to survive.