Books about wars
This week I seem to have fallen into a patch of books about wars. Here are some that I thought were good. The first one is a memoir or possibly a biography about a girl named Krystyna who grew up in Poland in the 1930s. Her dad was the chief justice of an appellate court and her mother had degrees in chemistry and philosophy. At first, they were fearful of the Germans but things really went badly when the Russians invaded. Her father was persecuted and ran away and Krysia and her mother and brother were deported to Kazakhstan where they lived for a while and then went to Persia (which is now Iran), eventually emigrating to Zambia. It would be good to connect this one to Ruta Septys' books-either "Between Shades of Gray" or "Salt to the Sea" which are also about people who were unwillingly relocated during World War 2. The second one I read is a picture book called "Flowers for Sarajevo" by John McCutcheon. It's told from the viewpo...