Couldn't Do It!!!!!! True Story????

In the book I'm reading right now called, "Tomorrow, When the War Began", there's a group of young friends, who are getting chased by army men because there is a War going on. But, as they are getting chased, there are gun shots whizing past their heads, and they are completely unarmed with nothing but their clothes on their back. I think that if I was in that situation, I would just give up because I wouldn't want to get killed. Even though I would be captured and would have to be a prisoner, I don't think it would be as bad as getting killed. But, I know why the author wrote the book like this because it makes much more exciting and interesting, and you don't want to put the book down. I don't know if I would write the book like that because I'm not a fantastic writer like he is, and I don't get paid to write books.

I don't know if "Tomorrow, When the War Began" is a true story, though, but it easily could be. I think there are somethings that are true, like how there is a World War, and the city of Wirrawee, that really did happen. But, I also think somethings aren't true like that whole group of friends, and the forest that the city calls "Hell". But, all in all the story of it I think is not a true story because I find things in the book unrealistic and fake. But, I do think that some other things are true. Who knows, maybe the whole book and story is true!