Category: book reviews
Making Bombs for Hitler
Stolen Child
One Step At A Time
Last Airlift
Prisoners in the Promised Land
Two lovely new reviews for Dance of the Banished
From Voya Magazine:
Skrypuch … has created an absorbing glimpse into a dark period in world history and the human consequences of war.
From Kirkus:
“An eye-opening exposé of historical outrages committed in two countries, with intriguing glimpses of a minority group that is not well-known in the Americas.”
100 years ago today, 364 Ukrainians interned at Spirit Lake Quebec
Here’s an article that I wrote a few years ago about the Montreal parishioners who were interned at Spirit Lake Internment Camp. It was published in a book by St. Michael’s Church in 2011 when they celebrated their 100th anniversary. By January 5, 1915, there were 364 “Austrians” (ie, Ukrainians) interned at Spirit Lake.
While doing research for my 2007 novel, Prisoners in the Promised Land, I visited the place where the internment camp had been. I also laid flowers at the internee grave site. It is shameful that this grave site is abandoned and in disarray, on property sold to a farmer.
Never Forget.
Making Bombs — French edition!
A merry postal elf just dropped off a box filled with author copies of Making Bombs, in French!
A hat trick for my WWII trilogy
Underground Soldier is a STARRED selection for CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens!
Stolen Child and Making Bombs for Hitler were starred selections in previous year. So happy for Larissa, Lida and Luka!