A winter's day in 1939 by Melinda Szymanik

The photo of the boy on the front cover is the author's father. In the front of her book she writes that her father was twelve when the Soviet Red Army invaded eastern Poland where he lived, in 1939. His family was transported from Poland to a labour camp in Russia in 1940. Their experiences during the first few years of World War Two form the basis of the novel.