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The Legenda Book!!

4/24/2015

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Since it is the World Book Day today I thought it was time to officially break the news about the book project I`ve been working on for the last year. After I met the people behind the soldier recovery team Legenda, and attended some of their expeditions I just had to make this project. With good help from some of the diggers I have collected many photos from expeditions, digs and exhumations, and also several articles and reports written by diggers. The book is meant to show you a little bit of the diggers world, their passion, love for old rust and the noble cause of finding the ones who was lost in the war, and what happens after they are found.

So, it being  World Book Day and I just happened to notice that the Ebook Version of the book was ready, I decided to make it available. And now, short after the Printed Version is also available!!
The book has 240 pages and 351 photos. 
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After World War Two Europe and Russia laid in ruins and people struggled to return to their normal lifes. Often they had seen family members go off to the war, and now many of them did not return. Millions of soldiers were listed as Missing in Action, or was buried in unmarked graves or in cemeteries which was destroyed and disappeared in the fighting. Many families never had an answer to what happened to their loved ones. Some are still waiting today. Still wondering. This book is about one of the few licensed recovery groups which operates in Latvia, a part of the former Eastern front. Legenda, which is the groups name, have found and recovered thousands of fallen soldiers, hundreds each year. In close cooperation with Latvian, Russian and German War Grave Committees, military archives and local authorities they try to identify soldiers and notify family or relatives. They see too it that each soldier is reburied at official War Cemeteries. It is estimated that it can be as many as 8 million soldiers still missing in the areas which was once called the Eastern Front. Here is a unique glimpse into the diggers life as they search through vast forests, muddy fields, deep bunkers and tons of rust and debris from the battles trying to find the missing soldiers.
Get the Ebook Version here! £9.99
Get the Softcover Book here! £49.99
Get the Hardcover Book here! £59.99
If buying a book please note that I am "self publishing" it and at this point do not handle the books myself. Alas, I have no chance to quality control each book or sign any at this point. Any problems with a book (damages/bad print job etc.) please contact the customer support from where the book is bought!! I am working on making it possible to buy the book directly from me and HobbyHistorica to ensure quality etc. But until then, the links above is where you can get a copy.
3 Comments
Dave byrne
4/28/2015 05:28:50 pm

As a digger and member of legenda since 2002 it's about time this group gets the recognition for all the hard work in finding the lost soldiers from Russia and Germany in ww2, hope to get on the next dig in 2016 as ive not been able to make it for the last two!
I will be ordering my hard copy now!

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Klein Alexander
6/29/2017 06:15:19 am

Guten Tag,

ist dieses Buch auch in Deutsch erhältlich?

mfg
Klein Alexander

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inka
6/29/2017 12:56:14 pm

Hi:)
Nicht im Moment, aber vielleicht wird es sein.

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