The Bronski House is the true story of Zofia, a Polish woman who returns to her homeland in 1992 after fleeing the country in 1939, partly running from Germans and Russians, partly from constantly shifting borders. Part of the story is about her mother, Helena, coming of age during the Bolshevik revolution. The book depicts the effect of war on a wealthy family who became impoverished refugees. It seems like all the war stories I have read recently are about displaced wealthy families. I guess peasants didn’t write and save memoirs and letters. I don’t think too many of my ancestors had the kind of money and household help that most of these people in the book did.