Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia

This book was recommended to me by a friend.  I knocked it out in about 5 hours of reading.  I couldn't put it down.  It is an autobiographical story of a young man who was forced into a Russian slave labor shortly after the end of WWII.  He was 17 when he was picked up off the street on his way to school.  In an odd twist of fate, his father saw him locked in his train car.  Their eyes met for just a moment before the train pulled away.  Although he later was able to communicate with his parents after his escape, he never saw his father again.  After 2 1/2 years in a mining slave labor camp he makes a miraculous escape to freedom.  It is an incredible story and would be worthwhile for teenagers to read just to come to understand the great blessings of freedom that we enjoy and that those things are worth fighting for to maintain.