Life's Journey of a Refugee

<I>Life's Journey of a Refugee</I> is a unique voyage from the cauldron of early 20th-century ethnic cleansing to the melting-pot of the mid-century American Dream from the wrong side of World War II through the gang wars of 1950's Brooklyn and the triumph and tragedies of postwar America.</P><P>For six hundred years the Catholic Land of Gottschee has endured as a remote outpost of the House of Austria the outermost point of the Holy Roman Empire a linguistic Island of medieval German in present-day Slovenia. It has withstood the Bosnian Warlord and Napoleon but German catastrophe in World War I brings tension with the local Slavs to a simmer hastening the exodus of educated Gottscheers.</P><P>Edwin Stalzer the author is born at the boiling point the moment of Gottschee's final tragedy. <i>Life's Journey of a Refugee</i> takes you through his life in an Austrian refugee camp from 1945 to 1952 his escape to America and his triumphant battle for the American Dream.</P>