There, Lev and Kolya take on an even more daring objective: to kill the commander of the local occupying German forces. Their mission exposes them to the most ghoulish acts of the starved populace and takes them behind enemy lines to the Russian countryside. But when Colonel Grechko confronts Lev and Kolya, a Russian army deserter also facing execution, he spares them on the condition that they acquire a dozen eggs for the colonel's daughter's wedding cake. The penalty for this infraction (and many others) is execution. Having elected to stay in Leningrad during the siege, 17-year-old Lev Beniov is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse. With this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving WWII in Russia. Author and screenwriter Benioff follows up The 25th Hour
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