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Boris
by Jaap ter Haar
It was hunger that
drove 12-year-old Boris and his friend, Nadia, to forage for potatoes in the forbidden
No-man’s-land that lay between the Russian and German lines outside the besieged city of Leningrad.
But the long walk in the bitter cold, through miles of ice and snow, was too difficult for Nadia.
As she lay on the ice, collapsed from exhaustion, Boris was at his wits’ end. When German patrol
rescued the children and delivered them safely to the Russian lines, Boris learned that the hated
enemy were not monsters — just ordinary men like any others — and that in war, everyone is the
victim.
Set in Leningrad during the dreadful 500 days in
1942-43 when it lay under siege by the German army, Boris is the story of a courageous
boy who faces the bitter life-and-death realities of war and human survival, and, with a growing
sense of compassion for all mankind, looks hopefully toward the future when all men can lay down
their arms and embrace one another as brothers.
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Time: 1942-1943
Age: 10-99
ISBN 978-0-921100-72-8
Retail Price: US$11.95
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