Warsaw boy: a memoir of a wartime childhood

Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers below - he felt he had come of age.

Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment.

Wounded the day after his 16th birthday, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital.

Here he learned a lesson: there were decent Germans as well as bad.

This is an extraordinary tale of survival and defiance.