Along the trenches : a journey through eastern Europe to Isfahan /
Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster. In September 2016, German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to travel along the trenches that are now reemerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne to the Caucasus and to Isfahan, the home...
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Cambridge, UK ; Medford, Massachusetts :
Polity Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cologne
- First day : Schwerin
- Second day : from Berlin to Wroclaw
- Third day : Auschwitz
- Fourth day : Cracow
- Fifth day : from Cracow to Warsaw
- Sixth day : Warsaw
- Seventh day : Warsaw
- Eighth day : from Warsaw to Masuria
- Ninth day : Kaunas
- Tenth day : Vilnius and vicinity
- Eleventh day : via Paneriai to Minsk
- Twelfth day : Minsk and Khatyn
- Thirteenth day : into the Chernobyl exclusion zone
- Fourteenth day : Kurapaty and Minsk
- Fifteenth day : into the exclusion zone east of Krasnapolle
- Sixteenth day : from Minsk to Kiev
- Seventeenth day : Kiev
- Eighteenth day : from Kiev to Dnipro
- Nineteenth day : to the front in Donbas
- Twentieth day : via Mariupol to the Black Sea
- Twenty-first day : along the Black Sea to Odessa
- Twenty-second day : Odessa
- Twenty-third day : leaving Odessa by air
- Twenty-fourth day : via Moscow to Simferopol
- Twenty-fifth day : via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol
- Twenty-sixth day : along the Crimean coast
- Twenty-seventh day : from Crimea to the Russian mainland
- Twenty-eighth day : to Krasnodar
- Twenty-ninth day : from Krasnodar to Grozny
- Thirtieth day : Grozny
- Thirty-first day : in the Chechen mountains
- Thirty-second day : from Grozny to Tbilisi
- Thirty-third day : Tbilisi
- Thirty-fourth day : Tbilisi
- Thirty-fifth day : to Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian cease-fire line
- Thirty-sixth day : from Tbilisi to Kakheti
- Thirty-seventh day : from Kakheti to Azerbaijan
- Thirty-eighth day : along the Azeri-Armenian cease-fire line
- Thirty-ninth day : by night train to Baku
- Fortieth day : Baku
- Forty-first day : Baku and Qobustan
- Forty-second day : leaving Baku by air
- Forty-third day : Yerevan
- Forty-fourth day : Yerevan
- Forty-fifth day : to Lake Sevan and on to Nagorno-Karabakh
- Forty-sixth day : through Nagorno-Karabakh
- Forty-seventh day : to the Armenian-Azeri cease-fire line and on to Iran
- Forty-eighth day : via Jolfa to Tabriz
- Forty-ninth day : via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle
- Fiftieth day : to the Caspian Sea and on to Tehran
- Fifty-first day : Tehran
- Fifty-second day : Tehran
- Fifty-third day : Tehran
- Fifty-fourth day : flying out of Tehran
- With family in Isfahan
- The journey begins.