Readers will learn of Soviet and German atrocities against the Ukrainian people and the efforts of the insurgency to fight against both murderous forces. Like the other two books, author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch uses The War Below to weave a riveting and historically accurate story of a lesser known component of WWII. All three books are woven together as Luka and Lida help each other survive the adverse conditions in the labor camp and both struggle to locate their missing family. These three books can stand alone or read together to tell the story of WWII from the perspectives of Ukrainian Lida sent to a labor camp as part of the Nazi Ostarbeiter work force (Making Bombs For Hitler), her blonde and blue-eyed sister Larissa who was kidnapped and put into a Nazi family as a victim of Hitler's Lebensborn program (Stolen Girl), and in The War Below, Luka, who escapes from a labor camp and joins the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). From the writer of Stolen Girl and Making Bombs For Hitler comes The War Below.
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