Underground Scouts tells the story of six teens who, through loss, find hope as they fight against the Germans when their troops join forces with the Underground Army during the 1944 Warsaw Rising.
Here you’ll find a book trailer, maps, pictures of the characters in the book, and an interview I had with Halina Butler, a Girl Guide during the Warsaw 1944 Rising. She worked with other Scouts who fought against the Germans, and eventually joined the Polish Underground Army’s Zośka Battalion. I met Halina at a Polish festival in California. Halina learned of the book and later invited me to her house for tea. She was actually a member of the Zośka Battalion that I researched and wrote about in Underground Scouts. She went by the codename Halszka.
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To see a sequential and alphabetical list of characters in the book, go to https://tinyurl.com/bd7mawm9. There you’ll find pronunciations for Polish names and pictures of many of the characters. You’ll also discover which ones were historical and which ones were fictional.
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