Hope's War
by Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchBoardwalk
Books 2001
$12.99 paperback
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But her hopes for a peaceful grade ten are shattered when she comes home from one of her first days at Cawthra and finds the RCMP interrogating her grandfather Danylo Feschuk. Kat learns that Danylo is accused of being a policeman for the Nazis in World War II Ukraine, and what's worse, he is suspected of having participated in atrocities against civilians.
When the story is exposed in the local newspaper, Kat and her family become the centre of a media storm. Her grades in school and her relationships with friends suffer. Her only support comes from her family and Ian, a classmate with whom she discovers she has more in common than just artistic promise.
Hope's War is published by Boardwalk Books, a division of
Dundurn Books.
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"A kids' book with meat"
Paul Gessell, The Ottawa Citizen
"Hope's War is a gripping novel that effortlessly intertwines
many complicated facts",
"Highly Recommended",
"****/4"
Joan Marshall, CM
Magazine
Hope's War has been nominated for the 2003 Manitoba
Young Readers' Choice Award.
Nominated a CBC Canada Reads People's
Choice book.
Nominated for the 2003/2004 Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award
Nominated for the 2004 Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award"It’s ironic that author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch would receive the galley proof of her latest novel, Hope’s War, on September 11. "
Cherie Delorey, InfoUkes
Resources
The infoukes web site is the most comprehensive and reliable Internet resource for all things Ukrainian.
General history of Modern and Ancient Ukraine, including related information on World War II history
Issues of alleged war crimes
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the WWII Ukrainian Resistance, has published 32 volumes of chronicles in the Ukrainian language. These all have English summaries
The Government
of Canada's Report on the Deschenes Commission and war criminals.
More general information on Ukraine.
