This book evokes memories of tales often told by my seniors, tge charachters depicted within it show real strength comes from ones ability to adapt to hardship, laugh at the darkest hour and come together even in the most dire of circumstance, it is true grit representation of our elders and why they survived, their ability to endure is thought provoking and captivates the reader from start to finish. I thought it was just another tale of survival during the war but it is so much more, you would be hard pressed to find a genuine representation of a time that no longer exists but is still felt by relatives of those who lived in this era and the memories bestowed upon them to be shared forever, lest we forget