Wars devastate, and World War Two has devastated with no precedent in human history. Thousand stories have been narrated about the misery and ravages leaded by this debacle. Still, many of thousand have remained to tell.

Keith Fisher has narrated two stories in these pages. In one, World War Two has orphaned two children. Ally and Tommy are deported to Cananda. Vicissitudes of life have taught these two city boys how to survive and how to thrive in countryside of Cananda. However, Life shocks them on many turns. And, death makes them realise it can visit any time.

In the second, poverty in the time of Great Depression compels parents of Gordon to sell him to his uncle to work on farm in Cananda. Life treats Gordon harshly, but a great man comes out of adversity.

Read these stories of unfair treatment of life and unexpected bounties of life and discover resources of resilience, strength and courage.