"Life or Death for Freedom is an accurate, detailed account of Albanian's history seen through the eyes of Demir Hysolli who's Great Grandfather kept a personal journal which was passed down from Generation to Generation. Born in Arza, Albania in 1938. Demir Hysolli was raised during the chaos of World War II and the ascendance of communism which followed it. After his childhood as a sheep herder in the mountains of old world Europe. Mr. Hysolli spent nearly ten years in a political communist prison. When, at last he escaped from the Stalinist state that Albania had become, he immigrated to the United States, pursuing the freedom which had vanished from his homeland. Mr. Hysolli bears witness to a turbulent period in his country's history which parallels events of his own life. Since coming to the United States, he became an American citizen and is living now, as a son of a free man." --page [4] of cover.