Ohnenne kolo. Povist pro trahediiu pid Brodamy (The Fiery Circle. The Story of the Tragedy Near Brody)

S. l. (Ulm): Vyd-vo "Ukrainski visti", 1953. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [8], 11-203, [3]; light-brown wraps, printed in red and black and illustrated with a small vignette; small nicks and creases to tips of spine; a bit of wear to corners of wraps; in very good condition.Ivan Bahrianyi, pseudonym for Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviahin (1906 - 1963) was a Ukrainian author, poet, educator, and politician. His poetry collection "Ave Maria," published in 1929, was immediately deemed inappropriate by the government censorship, forbidden, and pulled from the bookstores. Between 1932 and 1938, he was arrested several times for "counter-revolutionary propaganda" and spent time in NKVD prisons and labor camps. Bahrianyi emigrated to Germany at the end of the Second World War, where he edited the journal "Ukrainski visti," the latter also the publisher of the current book. He founded the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party in 1948 and, for a time, was Deputy President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. His "Fiery Circle" told the story of the Battle of Brody in 1944, between the Division Galizien of the Ukrainian National Army and the advancing Soviet Army during the Lviv-Sandomierz Operation.