Dutch Defense: A true story of struggle and survival during World War II - Johanna Kinney

Descriere Dutch Defense: A true story of struggle and survival during World War II - Johanna Kinney

\nIf his friends' resistance activities are exposed, he will be shot and they may be tortured to death. His houseguest happens to be a Nazi officer...\n \n \n\n \nAgainst his will, Alex has to share his home in The Hague with Gunther Blechmann, an SS officer of the occupying German forces. Liberation of the Netherlands by the advancing Canadians seems imminent, but meanwhile the Dutch are struggling to survive a particularly harsh winter, the Hunger Winter.\n \n \n\n \nWhile living in the house, the Kommandant noticed that Alex has friends in the Dutch Resistance, but lacks sufficient evidence to imprison them. He will not rest until he catches the entire group.\n \n \n\n \nIn Dutch Defense, Alex's and Gunther's dispassionate shared interest in chess contrasts starkly with the worsening oppression and hunger in the Netherlands in the chokehold of German occupation.\n \n \n\n \nThe author's memories from 1940-45 bring to life the dizzying twists and turns of this episodic story, showing the courage and ingenuity of ordinary young people who created their own resistance cell against the Third Reich.\n

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Amsterdam Publishers

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ENSTK

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9789493322073

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1

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