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Escape into danger, the true story of a Kievan girl in World War II, Sophia Orlovsky Williams

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Escape into danger

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Sophia Orlovsky Williams

the true story of a Kievan girl in World War II

Escape into Danger tells the remarkable true story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming-of-age during World War II

pt. I: Spring of youth -- 1. Full of Spunk -- 2. "Let It Rot!" -- 3. Politics -- 4. Internationalka -- 5. An Omen Fulfilled -- pt. II: The Steppes Aflame -- 6. Partings -- 7. Flagship Stalin -- 8. Narrow Escapes -- 9. Flight to the East -- 10. The Turning Point -- 11. My Purse! -- 12. Stranded -- 13. Waiting for the Enemy -- pt. III: German Occupation -- 14. Facing the Invaders -- 15. To Register--or Not? -- 16. A Promotion -- 17. "You Haven't Lost Everything." -- 18. German Studies -- 19. A Lamb in Spring -- 20. Rescued -- pt. IV: Eye of the Hurricane -- 21. On a Nazi Train -- 22. "Good Little Farmer" -- 23. A Red Silk Camisole -- 24. Lord of the Manor -- 25. Red Cross Nurse -- 26. The Truth Comes Out -- pt. V: Inside Nazi Germany -- 27. Nemesis on Horseback -- 28. Found! -- 29. A Proposal -- 30. Beethoven's Fifth -- 31. Hope -- 32. Half-Crazy, or in Love -- 33. Crisscrossing the Third Reich -- 34. "Imagine, Running into You!" -- 35. Off to the Alps -- pt. VI: Postwar Germany -- 36. Liberated by the Americans -- 37. A Changed Man -- 38. Ten Centimes Short -- 39. Pedaling through the Slush -- 40. A Twenty-Mark Fine -- 41. In the Cards -- 42. Bird in a Maze -- 43. A Double Rainbow