The point of the story is to shed light on the complex history of Lwow, which was in the hands of different nations and its history is probably unknown to most of the people outside Eastern Europe. The shifting powers meant you had to be careful who you associated yourself with. Fans of Wein’s Code Name Verity won’t want to miss this powerful story about the desperate actions we take in the name of loyalty and survival.” — The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books At times, it is confusing as the timeline alternates between 1941 and 1944. But despite that, it’s a look at a little known part of World War II history that is well worth reading. During World War II, two young men find themselves caught in the crosshairs of various factions in the occupied Galician city known to Poles as Lwów and to Ukrainians as L’viv.

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Fans of Wein’s Code Name Verity won’t want to miss this powerful story about the desperate actions we take in the name of loyalty and survival.”— The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books And I’m glad I did! It was such an amazing book full of twists and turns. I really fell in love with the characters. They had a lot of “thinking” they had to do for themselves. There were a lot of twists & turns throughout the book. The history of Lwow is so complex that trying to put all those names and what they stand for or for whom, or who is against whom, is very overwhelming. Note: The author is my crit partner, and I had read an earlier version of this book. The finished version is a marvel, though often very hard to take. It details the experiences of two young men toward the beginning and toward the end of World War Two, in the disputed territory of Galicia, in and around the city of Lviv/Lwow. And-- Traitor is a historical fiction novel is about towns that change occupation like the season. It’s a book that examines truth and loyalty like the truly subjective concept they are. It always matters who is the one asking, who is the one who was able to (re)write history. To decide who are the traitors, the rebels, and the loyal ones. It’s also a book that examines the grey spaces between obedience and rebellion. In collaboration, survival, and sacrifice.Traitor is an immersive, propulsive, atmospheric WWII story. Most of us know about the horrid days of WWII, but a very few know the history of Poland and Ukraine. The story is emotional, highly-nuanced and masterfully layered in suspense. You will question everything and everyone. After all, it is a story of betrayal, survival and revenge. There’s violence. There’s pain and a wide range of messy emotions. And despite all of it, it is also a story about loyalty and friendship and what makes us human in the darkest of times. Everyone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago—except Pippa Fitz-Amobi.

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My biggest takeaway from Traitor: A Novel of World War II was that it felt more like narrative non-fiction than fiction. The plot is more about what happens rather than the people who experiencing the conflict. I wasn't very attached to either Tolya or Aleksey as characters and would've loved more development about who they were as people. Ukraine, 1944. Tolya Korolenko kills someone by accident. Afterwards he moves along the streets of Lwow city with his gun. We get to know the names of the streets, but we don’t get a feel of who Tolya is, besides being half Polish and half Ukrainian. Don’t flatter yourself, Comrade. He was mine. And if you were worried about being safe, maybe you shouldn’t have shot your own officer.” this is a dual perspective historical thriller set in an eastern european city during world war two with ukrainian, polish, russian, and german words and names, which i read half as a physical copy and half as an audiobook. Plus all the secondary characters (the women, basically) bounced in and out of the storyline so randomly that I couldn’t remember who was who. It didn’t help that a few of them showed up in both timelines to thoroughly confuse me about who knew who.Four different nationalities have been battling for power in the war-ridden city of Lwów. Seventeen-year-old orphan Tolya is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and has seen no other option but to join the Soviet Red Army to stay alive. When he shoots his political officer, he’s pretty much doomed. But then he’s rescued by a group of Ukrainian freedom fighters led by Solovey. Solovey claims the group needs Tolya’s sniper skills. But Toyla doesn’t trust him, and being half Polish, he certainly doesn’t trust the Ukrainians will let him live once he’s executed the group’s mission.