![]() ![]() Their days and nights are filled with physical and psychological torture. Blood enemies become allies for convenience or safety but then betray each other. ![]() The Germans and Russians each embed secret police into the general population, often using Polish and Ukrainian recruits. ![]() Alternating sections jump back and forth between Aleksey in 1941 and Tolya in 1944.īoth Ukraine and Poland have their own resistance fighters. Young Ukrainian Aleksey plots to free his father from the city’s main prison before the Germans arrive and slaughter or cart off all inmates. McCrina then skips back to 1941, as the same city prepares for the German invasion days away. Tolya, an expert rifle shooter, has value to multiple sides. A squad of the still intact Ukrainian insurgent army finds and rescues him. He has just shot and killed his own unit’s political officer and must flee. There, the novel opens on seventeen-year-old Tolya, a half-Polish, half-Ukrainian soldier in the Soviet Army. In the summer of 1944, the Russian army occupies the Polish city of Lwow. ![]()
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