[wideminded]

If you want to read a book about the life of a child in the Soviet Union during WWII then you might consider, "The Painted Bird" by Jerzey Kosinski.

I've heard that Kosinski has been exposed as a complete liar and the Painted Bird is fiction. If you look him up on wikipedia they have the details. He was a good actor in Reds.

[freedomson]

Read the book and then ask yourself, what kind of mind could have made this stuff up. Again, if it's fiction, just what experiences in life could have shaped this imagination? You've never read anything even remotely like it.