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Displaced
Bosnia is the back drop to this fascinating insight into a twenty year search to uncover the true identity of a man displaced from his country and loved ones.
Genealogy today is big business. Websites now offer their services to uncover the truth about our heritage. Lost royal bloodlines can be uncovered at the click of the mouse. Family tragedies of old can be revisited once more, memories cherished at last forever.
Imagine however if no records of our existence remained.
DISPLACED tells of such a search of no recordable beginning. The story strives to uncover the shrouded blanket, kept in secret for over sixty years, of my own grandfather's life before his appearance in England in 1947. Yugoslavia's bloody and violent times of her past are revisited within my own travels of modern day quest of understanding.
Genealogy today is big business. Websites now offer their services to uncover the truth about our heritage. Lost royal bloodlines can be uncovered at the click of the mouse. Family tragedies of old can be revisited once more, memories cherished at last forever.
Imagine however if no records of our existence remained.
DISPLACED tells of such a search of no recordable beginning. The story strives to uncover the shrouded blanket, kept in secret for over sixty years, of my own grandfather's life before his appearance in England in 1947. Yugoslavia's bloody and violent times of her past are revisited within my own travels of modern day quest of understanding.
310 pages, Paperback
First published August 4, 2011
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About the author
Andy Evans
51 books11 followersAndy Evans was born in the gritty coal mining communities of West Yorkshire England.
After leaving school at the age of sixteen he followed the generations of school leavers before him to work in the local coal mines.
Following the demise of the coal mining industry he now works within the Criminal Justice System.
Andy is married with two children and has a granddaughter, Ava. He continues to live in his native West Yorkshire.
Vesna Kovac was born and raised in her native homeland of Bosnia.
Her home town is Novi Travnik. After leaving school she went onto graduate as an engineer at the Military Academy in Zagreb, Croatia and went onto work at the Bratstvo Armaments factory in Novi Travnik.
She remained in Bosnia until the end of the war and now lives in the USA with her husband and two sons.
After leaving school at the age of sixteen he followed the generations of school leavers before him to work in the local coal mines.
Following the demise of the coal mining industry he now works within the Criminal Justice System.
Andy is married with two children and has a granddaughter, Ava. He continues to live in his native West Yorkshire.
Vesna Kovac was born and raised in her native homeland of Bosnia.
Her home town is Novi Travnik. After leaving school she went onto graduate as an engineer at the Military Academy in Zagreb, Croatia and went onto work at the Bratstvo Armaments factory in Novi Travnik.
She remained in Bosnia until the end of the war and now lives in the USA with her husband and two sons.
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