The button war
Avi
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Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When
in August 1914
Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor
Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after
World War I comes to Poland
bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree. The contest is on. The competition escalates from stealing uniform buttons on a wash line to looting the bodies of dead soldiers to setting up an ambush. Leading the charge is Jurek
who will do anything to be Button King. It's only Patryk who tries to stop Jurek's increasingly dangerous game before it leads to deadly consequences.
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