Word: milja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story revolves around Milja Drangov, slender, striking, brown-eyed daughter of a famed leader of the movement for Macedonian independence. Her father was killed in a futile uprising against the Turks soon after her birth. With her mother, she was swept over the border in the tide of refugees, eventually adopted by a Serbian...
...Milja persuaded Todor to give the organization the purpose it had previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja...
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