Anglický jazyk

Dancing in Bomb Shelters

Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
Rok vydania: 2010
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781450207577

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O knihe

"A rare historical treasure that tells the
riveting story of a Dutch family's survival in World War
II."
-Melanie Wiggins, author of Torpedoes in the
Gulf, Fatal Ascent, U-Boat Adventures, and They Made Their
Own Law
In May 1940, fourteen-year-old Johanna de
Wilde was just like any other teenage girl in Nijmegen,
Holland, who loved boys and music, but when Hitler and his
German troops invaded her town during World War II, her life
was changed forever.
As bombs exploded around her
house, Johanna was encouraged by her father to document
their large family's struggles to survive as they
desperately searched for food; fearfully hid Jewish friends;
and bravely endured SS brutality, Gestapo searches, and
resistance activities. Johanna shares how she was forced to
write secretly and keep the pages of her diary well-hidden
to avoid discovery by the Gestapo who would have surely shot
her father and sent the rest of the family to concentration
camps as punishment.
As her town became the focal
point of the huge Allied invasion, Operation Market Garden,
Johanna provides an in-depth glimpse into how teenagers
behaved during a traumatic time in history as they searched
for excitement, danced and romanced, and played tricks on
the enemy in order to offset hunger, earsplitting noise, and
privation that persisted for five long years.