The war below : a novel /
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
- First American edition.
- 240 pages ; 22 cm.
Originally published in 2014 by Scholastic Canada under title: Underground soldier. Companion to: Making bombs for Hitler.
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
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World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Ukraine--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction. Child labor--Fiction. Ukrainians--Germany--Fiction.