An edition of De aanslag (1982)

The assault

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An edition of De aanslag (1982)

The assault

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It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.

The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton’s life. Determined to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence--a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with others who were involved in the assassination and its aftermath, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1944, and why.
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Collins Harvill
Language
English
Pages
204

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Subjects
History, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Fiction, espionage, Netherlands, fiction, Besetzung, Kollaboration, Widerstand, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, general
People
Anton Steenwijk, Fake Ploeg
Places
Netherlands, Holland, Haarlem, Heemstede
Times
German occupation, 1940-1945, 1945, 1952, 1966

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Das Attentat: Roman
1996-11, Rowohlt Verlag, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
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Das Attentat
1994, Carl Hanser Verlag
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The Assault
1986, Pantheon Books
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The Assault
1986, Pantheon Books
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The assault
1985, Collins Harvill
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Translation of 'De aanslag', 1982.

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Dewey Decimal Class
839.3/1364
Library of Congress
PT5860.M85

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Pagination
204p. ;
Number of pages
204

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OL17420058M
ISBN 10
0002710110
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473941
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1273791

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Far, far back during the Second World War, a certain Anton Steenwijk lived with his parents and his brother on the outskirts of Haarlem.
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