• From Bolshevik Russia to America: A Mennonite Family Story (2nd Edition) -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : In 1922, six families from a tiny village in the Ukraine began a harrowing journey to America that would pit them against disease, starvation, and physical exhaustion. Nearly eighty-five years after it was written, this diary is a testament to the will to survive and the strength of the human spirit. This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• History of the First Amish Mennonite Communities in America - (Book - Amazon.com) : The story of the Amish settling in Berks Co., Pa., in the eighteenth century with early European history, Amish division, social and economic developments, influences of the farm and family, as these settlers passed their faith on to future generations.
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• Introduction To The Russian Mennonites -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes-in exchange for exemption from military service-Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and Europe. This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Integrating the most recent Civil War scholarship with little-known primary sources and new information from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Illinois and Iowa, Lehman and Nolt provide the definitive account of the Anabaptist experience during the bloodiest war in American history. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Over 1,100 mouth-watering recipes are in this fabulous collection of favorites contributed by Mennonite families from all over the United States and Canada. All the recipes have been brought up-to-date for directions and measurements so whether it's oyster chowder or apple fritters, or the many main dishes and desserts that make Mennonite cooking so delicious, all of them can be enjoyed by the modern cook. This book may also be available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada - (Book - Amazon.ca) : In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, "Hard Passage" speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
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