Condition: Good. SIGNED! Inscribed, personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, edges ?good?= moderate to heavy bumping and / or rubbing. ABOUT THIS: 1941...In war-torn Europe, a train of cattle cars packed with women and children rolls past a looming mountain range toward an unknown destination. The Urals, gateway to Asia! Young doctor Ruzena, with her infant daughter, realizes with horror that her previous life has ended. A nightmarish seventeen days later, she and her companions are abandoned in a village on the wild steppes of Kazakhstan, south of Siberia. Later, Ruzena serves as a doctor, battles a devastating typhus epidemic on an immense agricultural complex, be-comes an officer in the Soviet Army's Czech Legion, and heads a hospital filled with victims from some of the deadliest battles. After the war, she learns that her family had died in Auschwitz. Had she not kept her daughter with her, she would have never seen the child again. Despite war and deportation, Ruzena found strength in her love for both child and country. Utterly self-less, gifted with a saving sense of self-defense and faith in the future, she would never apply the words "courageous" and "heroic" to her-self. But Cattle Car to Kazakhstan shows her, smiling and resolute as she was?and remains today?the living image of the best a woman can be.