The Color of Courage: A Boy at War by Julian Kulski

Posted on December 30, 2014 by pagesofjulia

Kulski’s story heart-wrenchingly follows the arc of a boy becoming a young man in World War II Poland.

The Color of Courage is the chronological diary of Julian Kulski, who was ten years old when Germany invaded his native Poland in 1939. Transitioning from the Boy Scouts to the Polish Underground Army, through the Warsaw Ghetto and the event of the Warsaw Uprising, Kulski ends up a sixteen-year-old German prisoner of war; but his story doesn’t end there. This gripping personal account brings a deeply moving and unique perspective to World War II Poland.

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This review was published on November 27, 2014 by ForeWord Reviews.

My rating: 8 bricks.

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