The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Allan Levine is an award-winning internationally selling author and historian based in Winnipeg, Canada.
He has written thirteen books including the Sam Klein historical mystery trilogy.
Winner of the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year, the Best History Book Award at the Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and the co-winner of the J.I. Segal Prize in Canadian Jewish History.
A freelance writer since the early 1980s, his work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Toronto Star, the National Post, and Saturday Night. A columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press since 2010, he explains the history behind current events.

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“For those of us who participated in the events detailed in this book, its significance lies in the author’s ability to chronicle our thoughts, our moods, our objectives, our tragedies, and our sufferings, as well as our hopes, dreams, and victories.”
—Peter Silverman, a former resistance fighter

“Allan Levine’s ambitious chronicle…meticulously researched…is a must read for those who wonder about organized Jewish resistance to the Holocaust.”
—Globe and Mail

“[This] book justifies itself historically and morally. Levine’s sober tone is, after all, a retort to the livid obscenity of history."
—Toronto Star

“Allan Levine has written an important book…He tells the story of Jewish armed resistance in Eastern Europe very well. He weaves personal vignettes, often poignant into his narrative…His graphic and gripping account should ensure a wide readership.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“I hope that Defiance will inspire [people] to learn more about the true story. They can read about it in Allan Levine's amazing book, Fugitives of the Forest. I couldn't believe these people's will to survive.” —Actress Alexa Davalos, who plays Lilka Ticktin, the love and future wife of Tuvia Bielski. (buzzine.com)

“This is a story told just in time, for the many eye witnesses are dying every year now. But Levine carefully documents their accounts and reconstructs a powerful moment of triumph in the middle of the modern world's greatest catastrophe.” —Doug Wead, U.S. presidential historian, philanthropist, and Special Assistant to U.S. President George H. W. Bush