For Sasha, With Love: An Alzheimer Crusade : The Story of Anne Bashkiroff [Hardcover]

Gail Bernice Holland (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Dembner Books (May 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934878544
• ISBN-13: 978-0934878548
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,402,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gail Bernice Holland is an award-winning journalist who has worked on newspapers and magazines in Britain and the United States. She was a staff writer for Home Magazine in London, England, a feature writer for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, and editor of Connections magazine published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Holland is known for her books and articles that explore new ways of thinking and acting, and her honors include the California State Bar Sigma Delta Chi Press award for "outstanding achievement by an editorial worker in reporting and interpreting the administration of justice in California." Holland has also worked in the movie industry, written radio commentaries, and is the author of the following books:

LATEST BOOK - JUST PUBLISHED
Love Each Day: Live each day so you would want to live it again. (Loving Healing Press, 2009) Forty true stories about a day in the life of a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, a police officer, a Nobel Prize scientist, a comedian, a bus driver, an Olympic athlete, a teacher, a baseball player - people in different careers, people from all walks of life. Read their stories; learn life lessons. These inspirational stories remind us how to spend time treasuring time.

Other books by Gail Bernice Holland:
Forget-Me-Not (Purdue University Press, 2007), A Call for Connection ((New World Library, 1998) and For Sasha, with Love (Dembner Books, 1985).
To read reviews of Holland's books and some of her articles explore Google using the author's full name: Gail Bernice Holland

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A compelling chronicle of the pioneer of AD awareness, April 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: For Sasha, With Love: An Alzheimer Crusade : The Story of Anne Bashkiroff (Hardcover)

Alzheimer's disease has been called a walking death -- both for the sufferer and for the family. It is not only about memory loss, but loss of lifestyle, of friendships, of marriage and family. Too often, it is also about a loss of dignity and hope.

Gail Holland's book was the first on the market, and tells the gripping tale of Anne Bashkiroff, an immigrant Russian woman who turned her tragedy in losing her brilliant husband to AD into a movement that has helped millions of people worldwide.

In reportorial format, Holland chronicles a tale of horror and love that resembles a cross between "Dr. Zhivago" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." And yet, through it all, Bashkiroff never gives up hope -- even though she becomes suicidal.

Her tenacity and most of all her compassion for the suffering of others who must care for a loved one with brain impairment is a guiding light. Because she had the courage to speak up in an era when no one was talking about dementia, let alone crusading for humane long-term care, Bashkiroff made it a safer world for those with Alzheimer's.

Beth Witrogen McLeod, author "Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring and hopeful story, April 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: For Sasha, With Love: An Alzheimer Crusade : The Story of Anne Bashkiroff (Hardcover)

This is a true story which begins in Shanghai and travels halfway around the world. It chronicles the life journey of a fascinating woman who has experienced great joy and tragedy and turned them both into good works that are still enriching society.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Sasha with love, September 24, 2008

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Jo Ann Smail (Walnut Creek, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For Sasha, With Love: An Alzheimer Crusade : The Story of Anne Bashkiroff (Hardcover)

A very poignant love story and struggle of a man and woman who faced the difficulties of Alzheimer's. I heard his wife interviewed on the radio and her recalling of all she faced with her husbands Alzheimers was so compelling that I had to buy the book and it is a wonderful as well as sad story of what one has to go thru in facing all of the problems that have to be faced with this particular illness. It is also a true story of great strength and how love of her husband and love from their son helped her get thru all that she had to endure.