‘The Chocolate Suitcase’, by Bryan Wiles, is based on fact-based testimony from his Polish in-laws. He said: “This was living history and, to truly live again in the minds of others, it had to be told as a novel. "Bronek Baranek is a forester living in eastern Poland with his teenaged wife, Anna, when war breaks out. "The whole family, including his sister, Maria, and her 14-year-old son, Jas, is forcibly evicted by the invading Russians. "It has allowed me to understand the risks my parents took and their resourcefulness and determination, when life was hanging by a thread.”‘The Chocolate Suitcase’ is available worldwide from Amazon for £15.

Source: The Times December 17, 2023 08:02 UTC