Thousands of Roads

<p> Before during and after World War II Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14 her participation in resistance activities during the War her bittersweet marriage to revolutionary leader Orlan her struggle against Stalinist forces and her captures by and escapes from the KGB. In the 1950s when she escaped to the West she began these memoirs which were not published in Ukrainian until after the fall of the Soviet Union. Their appearance in Ukrainian caused a sensation as she remains the only survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) to have told her tale now offered in English. Pyskir whose escape came at the cost of her husband children and family recreates in her memoir an astonishing account of her experiences as a Ukrainian partisan a woman a wife a mother and an outcast from her own land. The book contains maps many of the author's own photographs and a foreword by John A. Armstrong.</p>