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The author Eugeniusz (Eugene) Krajewski was born in the Northeast region of Independent Poland in 1935. At the outbreak of the Second World War, peaceful life in the author's family home was shattered once and for all. Soon after the invasion of his region by the Russian Armies his father was "arrested", never to be seen again. This was followed by the deportation of the remainder of the Krajewski family (the author included) to Siberia to be used as slave labour. What followed included journeys to far reaches of the Globe, some of them involving many harrowing ordeals in which the family battled against the surrounding starvation, illness and death.
Due to political developments he, together with his mother, brother and two sisters, eventually found themselves in the care of the British and, having spent some time in Persia (now known as Iran) and India, finally arrived in England in 1948. After becoming a qualified engineer, Eugene lived and worked in England for many years, until he was called upon to employ his skills abroad - consequently in Russia (where he wrote this book!) and more recently, in Poland.http://strawsinthewind.com/home.htm