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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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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
185

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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
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, Pantheon Books
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Date on back cover.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1985
Translation Of
De aanslag
Translated From
Dutch

Classifications

Library of Congress
PT5860.M85 A6313 1985, PT5860.M85A6313 2002

Contributors

Translator
Claire Nicolas White

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
185 p.
Number of pages
185

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30625285M
ISBN 10
0394744209
ISBN 13
9780394744209
LCCN
84022623
OCLC/WorldCat
15032059
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0394744209
Goodreads
22908922

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16253633W
Wikidata
Q1167183
BookBrainz
02284889-484f-4af1-b017-0219a0c4c3a9

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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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