If you’re into historical fiction based in World War II—or just want a great read, period—get Scott Bury’s Army of Worn Soles.
“They shuffled ahead to where a German private had ladled soup from a barrel into small metal bowls. Fish heads floating in water, that’s what the Germans called soup for the prisoners on the eastern front.”
With that telling description of life as a Red Army POW, one can sense the despair and futility that fell upon these poor souls trapped beneath the steel heels of German aggression during World War II. In Scott Bury’s exceptional novel—based on the real-life accounts of his father-in-law, Maurice Bury, a Canadian-born Ukrainian conscripted by the Soviets—Army of Worn Soles takes you not only into enemy territory, but uncharted territory seen through human eyes: The hell of war.
Though told in novel form, historical facts are not only accurate, but shocking, tightly woven…
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