The literary career of Marc Levy, one of the most popular French writers, developed rapidly. His first book, “Between Heaven and Earth” (2000), thundered throughout the world and was soon filmed (produced by Steven Spielberg). The next six - invariably bestsellers, and not only in France - have been translated into more than thirty languages. The novel "Children of Freedom", published in a circulation of 400,000 copies, is written based on the true memoirs of the author's father and uncle, who as boys participated in the underground struggle against the occupiers during Second World War. Children of Freedom are teenagers of different nationalities: Spaniards, Hungarians, Poles, Czechs, Jews, whose families fled for various reasons to France, which became their second homeland. Dreaming of love and life in a free world, they create an international brigade in Toulouse, which joined the Resistance movement as an independent detachment. The chronicle of this furious “street war” is written from the perspective of the novel’s protagonist, Jeannot, one of the few surviving fighters of the brigade.