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By Ellen von zur Muehlen,Gisela v.z. M. Ives

In God’s fingers: A Noblewoman’s fight for Survival in warfare and Revolution has been known as “a eu long gone with the Wind” and a “story of the nice upheavals of the twentieth Century, of the altering face of eu heritage, and of the common power of the human spirit.” This gripping memoir, by way of Ellen von zur Muehlen, chronicles her existence from her start in 1892 right into a relations of the Baltic German the Aristocracy in Tsarist Russia, to her existence in Germany, Poland, and London, England. She later emigrated to the United States, the place she died in 1985 on the age of ninety two. She writes concerning the violent alterations in her existence in the course of international conflict I, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and global conflict II, ultimately fleeing in 1945 together with her kin in the course of the burning ruins of Berlin over the past days of Nazi Germany.
Her daughter, Gisela Ives, deals her personal statement approximately those occasions, following her delivery in 1931 on her father’s property in Latvia. She met and later married in London George Ives of latest Bern, North Carolina, who used to be stationed there as an officer within the usa military.
Ellen’s instance of human braveness and faith—for she fervently believed that she was once in God’s arms and that He guided her to make the precise judgements for survival—has been an concept for all of her family.

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