Hunger's Rogues
OCLC 866543 | | |
658.7 S221 | ||
Preceded by | Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia (1968) |
Hunger's Rogues (Hunger's Rogues: On The Black Market In Europe) is an autobiography written by Jacques Sandulescu (February 21, 1928 – November 19, 2010). Sandulescu was conscripted in
Synopsis
Hunger's Rogues takes up the author's story about a year after he escaped from forced labor in the Russian mines, recounted in Donbas.
The book ends with Sandulescu describing his clearance to emigrate and his boarding a ship to Canada. In an epilogue, the author describes returning to Germany in 1954 as a US citizen and soldier. Obtaining leave from his unit, he travels to the small village where he had buried, six years earlier in a heavily wooded area, fourteen golden goblets looted from a Bavarian castle. When he reaches the place, he finds an apartment building on the spot. Not willing to risk calling attention to his involvement in the six-year-old theft, Sandulescu inquires only as to how long the building had been standing. He learns from a passerby that the apartment building had been built three years before. Fearing to ask further questions about any artifacts uncovered during construction, Sandulescu returns to his army unit having never learned the fate of "his" treasure.
Author
Jacques Sandulescu was born February 21, 1928, in Romania, and died November 19, 2010, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In addition to his autobiographical books, Sandulescu wrote fiction[5][6] and was a boxer, bar-owner and actor. His acting career began in 1970, with a small role in The Owl and the Pussycat, and continued until 2002 (his last job was on Law & Order: Criminal Intent). He was a personal friend of author Whitley Strieber, and is mentioned in Strieber's book Communion as having been present at some of the events that purportedly occurred at that time.[7]
See also
- Aftermath of World War II in Europe
- Post-war German Flight and expulsions from Eastern Europe
- Berlin Blockade
References
- New York Times. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ISBN 0-595-15043-8. Archived from the originalon 2014-05-17.
- ISBN 0-8101-1476-3. Archived from the originalon 13 April 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ISBN 0-300-03865-8. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ISBN 0-595-29872-9. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
- ISBN 0-399-11511-0.
- ISBN 978-0-06-147418-7. Retrieved 1 November 2011.