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They Have Conquered: Part One - Softcover

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WIENS, HERBERT

 
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Based on actual people and events THEY HAVE CONQUERED is a fictional account of an extended Mennonite family living in turn of the century Southern Russia. All individuals whose full names were used, places, and events are historically accurate. Part One covers the timespan from 1894 to early 1922. Within that short period, the lead character, Gerhardt, grows into adulthood, gets married, explores Siberia, homesteads along the Caspian Sea shoreline, is conscripted into World War One and the Revolution. Along the way, his family suffers, rejoices, and mourns.

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Born into a large blue collar family, Herbert Wiens was raised to value the rewards gained from hard work. Starting the summer after first grade, he tagged along with his older sisters as they boarded the "Bean Bus" at dawn to pick berries and string beans in Oregon's Willamette Valley. From then on, he never failed to have an after (or before) school job to help with family expenses. In high school, he started working on North Idaho ranches. In college, he fought forest fires in the summer and started working nights in a sawmill to pay tuition. His college experience was interrupted by a non-negotiable invitation from Uncle Sam, requesting his presence for the next few years in an all expenses paid, Vietnam era, tour of the world. Upon discharge, not having anything else better to do until he decided upon a future, he returned to the sawmill. Life got in the way for the next twenty years. Then, he became a small businessman for the next twenty. Now, he is spending his time using a keyboard to torture editors.

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