Multimedia Journalism Lecturer’s book 'Blood in the Forest: the end of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket' published

Vince Hunt’s (Lecturer at Manchester Met) second book 'Blood in the Forest: the end of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket' has been published by Helion.

The book is a practical application of journalism techniques on the road in Latvia; a journey through the modern landscape meeting elderly veterans and historians and seeing what traces of this disputed time are left. For many Latvians who fought against the Soviet Union, the war ended in either death or deportation to Siberia.

Vince gathers eyewitness accounts of a period of WWII that there has been little written about before, which sheds new light on one of the final frontiers of WWII. Along the way, he meets a refugee who fled as a child and returned to be President and a Holocaust survivor who escaped from a death march and became a Soviet partisan. He also discovers the true story of Crocodile Dundee.

On his motivations for writing the book “I felt there was a lack of a personal human account of that time which reflected the twists and turns and agonizing episodes of Latvian history. Once I began actively researching the Courland Pocket I discovered that virtually the whole nation had been affected by that period.”

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