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A fate shared by over half a million ethnic Germans from Russia. Number-one bestselling author Hera Lind tells the true story of Lydia, a Black Sea German who is only 16 years old when she is taken to a Siberian gulag. In 1944, a nightmare begins for 16-year-old Lydia that seems never-ending: As the Red Army advances on her small village near Odessa in Ukraine, her family flees. They even manage to reach Germany, but they are brought back. Lydia, along with her mother and four siblings, is taken to Siberia in minus 50-degree temperatures. For twelve merciless years, she fights for survival in a gulag and becomes the mother of eight children, six of whom survive. When she is finally released from the camp, the Iron Curtain is firmly in place. For another twelve years, she wanders through the Soviet Union with her children, always with one goal in mind: to reach West Germany at any cost, even though she has never been there. Because Germany is her homeland. A moving factual novel about a fate shared by nearly a million ethnic Germans from Russia. Heartbreaking, yet never without hope: bestselling author Hera Lind tells in her factual novel "At Any Cost" a true story that awakens and deeply shakes.