Stunning insight into a world changing event The first of two volumes delving into a hidden area of the history of WWII Marisha… The daughter of a Polish Political settler from the Eastern Polish borderlands is snatched by Stalin's henchmen at the start of WWII. Along with her family, they transport her to a Gulag in Arctic Russia to be worked and starved to death. Having been parted from the boy she loves, she strives for a new purpose and a reason to live. Emerging emaciated two years later as Stalin frees them after Hitler embarks on Operation Barbarossa, Marisha fights her way alone across the war-torn Soviet Union in search of him. This is a true story of loss and recovery reaffirming the immutable human spirit, testing people of courage to re-create themselves in the face of total devastation. But will she succeed…?