ASIN: B01ADEAW78
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 292
September 1941, Kiev.Life for teenage sisters Natasha and Lisa Smirnova is about to change beyond their worst fears.Despite Stalin’s assurances to hold the Ukrainian capital at all costs, Hitler has ordered his troops into the Ukraine and for the Russians and Ukrainians living there, it heralds a terrible time of fear, hunger and peril.All too soon, the danger of living under Nazi occupation impacts on the lives of the ordinary citizens. The eldest Smirnov son, Stanislav, sets off to fight for the Red Army at the front. On the brink of marriage to her fiancé Alexei, Lisa’s happiness quickly turns to despair. Her older sister Natasha watches as their frail grandmother stands up to a Nazi and pays a hard price. But who is the mysterious soldier who steps in to rescue Natasha?As the harsh winter of 1941 draws in, the Smirnov family watch Jewish friends dragged from their homes, never to ...
