num_pages: 440
description: Based on a true story. A battle for Ukrainian freedom becomes a fight to survive for the people of Lemkovyna, in south east Poland. In that stretch of the Carpathian mountains lives Mikhailo, a Ukrainian Lemko farmer. He and his family support a nearby company of Ukrainian partisans whose attacks on Polish and Russian armies antagonise the Generals in charge, who would like to eradicate them. Meanwhile, Mikhailo's wife, Genya, struggles to feed and clothe their children within the carnage of World War Two, and for her sister, Johanna, keeping children safe becomes a formidable challenge in the dark days of the Final Solution. When everyone in Mikhailo's village is herded on to a train to make a journey away from their homes, they fear they will never return.
title: Fate and Circumstance