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Winner of the 2017 American Christian Fiction Writers' Carol Honor - Best Christian Fiction of the 12 months An epic novel exposing the ugliness of warfare and the wonder of hope. The town of Kiev was bombed in Hitler's blitzkrieg across the Soviet Union, but the constant siege was only the beginning for her people. With this sweeping historical saga, Kelli Stuart can take the listener on the captivating journey into the little-known background of Ukraine's tragedies through the sight of four engaging characters who experience the same report from different perspectives. Maria Ivanovna is only 14 when the bombing begins and not much old when she is forced into just work at a German labor camp. She must battle to survive and also to make her in the past to her precious Ukraine. Ivan Kyrilovich is falsely recognised incorrectly as a Jew and lined up with 34,000 other men, women, and children who are to be shot at the border of Babi Yar, the "getting rid of ditch." He survives, but not without devastating effects. Luda is 16 when German troops rape her. Now pregnant with the kid of the foe, she is abandoned by her daddy, by themselves, and in pain. She must figure out how to trust family and friends again and find her own strength in order to discover the redemption that awaits. Frederick Hermann is sure in his knowledge that the Führer's programs for domination are right and just. He is driven to succeed by way of a aspire to please a demanding daddy and by his own blind trust in the ideals of Nazism. Based on true stories compiled from 15 many years of research and interviews with Ukrainian World Warfare II survivors, Like a River from Its Course is a story of love, warfare, heartache, forgiveness, and redemption.