Author: LIAS, Godfrey
Title: Kazak Exodus. [A Nation's Flight to Freedom]
Description: London, Evans Brothers Limited, [1956]. 22 x 14.5 cm. 230 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w - 'In 1948, some twenty thousand Kazak families, with their herds of camels, sheep and horses and all their possessions, set out from Sinkiang Province [Xinjiang] on a tragic but unwavering exodus from their communist-dominated country. [...]' - Two years later they found temporary shelter in East Kashmir and finally found sanctuary and the chance to build a new life in Turkey. - The author tells , for the first time, the sory of this mass migration. - Dustjacket price-clipped, one tear [ca. 1.5 cm.]; edges a bit foxed, otherwise a good copy

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