Sword and Plowshare

Sword and Plowshare, by Arthur Grenke, 2014, 489 pages, Trafford Publishing.

This is an historical novel placed in Volhynia, the area of far western Russia near Romania, where thousands of German settlers had made their homes and living starting in the era of Catherine the Great, who had invited them there in the 1760s, as well as into the Volga region further east and later, under her successors, into the Black Sea region to the south and other parts of Russia.

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