Underground Soldier The War Below

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Underground Soldier is the same book as The War Below

A companion to the award-winning books Stolen Child (Stolen Girl) and Making Bombs for Hitler. Fourteen-year-old Luka works as an Ostarbeiter in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, alongside Lida from Making Bombs for Hitler. Desperate to escape the brutal conditions of the labour camp, he manages to get away by hiding in a truck under a pile of dead bodies. Once free, Luka joins a group of Ukrainian resistance fighters. Caught between advancing Nazis in the west and Soviet troops in the east, they mount guerilla raids, help POW escapees, and do all they can to make life hard for the Nazis and Soviets. After the war, Luka must decide whether to follow Lida to Canada ― or stay in Europe and search for his long-lost mother. Underground Soldier (The War Below)is a companion book to Stolen Child (Stolen Girl) and Making Bombs for Hitler, and a perfect entry point into the series for new readers, as the books can be read in any order.