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Continuing the tradition of publishing memoirs, Smoloskyp offers readers a unique memoir by a native of the Ternopil region, Professor Pylyp Haida (1892-1989), The Way Travelled, where the author recalls the events of his life from birth to 1952, when he was already living in Detroit (USA). This documentary recollection of one particular person allows us to see a huge section of Ukrainian history, when the author's native Galicia was first part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, then Poland, and later the Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Participation in the First and Second World Wars, staying in camps for displaced persons in Germany, studying, teaching, wandering, moral and physical struggle for personal growth and role in nation-building - all this and much more (everyday details of rural life, wartime adventures, educational trials in various fields) form the main nerve of the narrative, flavoured with the colour of the Ukrainian language of that time. And, as Yaroslav Hrytsak notes, it awakens "the activation of historical memory. That is why the publication of these memoirs has not only historical or literary, but also political significance." The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know the past of their country and care about its future.