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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780806540399
EAN-Code:	9780806540399
Verlag:	Random House N.Y.
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Seiten:	352
Zus. Info:	GRY WHI SLV BLK
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

Inhalt:

The astonishing true story of three fearless teenagers who wielded their youth and innocence as weapons of resistance in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands of WWII. Award-winning historian Tim Brady brings to light the remarkable daring of Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen and their red-haired friend Hannie Schaft in this “moving story spotlighting the extraordinary heroism of everyday people during the war and the Holocaust” (Publishers Weekly). Truus Oversteegen, her younger sister Freddie, and their friend Hannie Schaft were just teenagers when the commander of The Dutch Royal Army surrendered to the Nazis. Overnight, nine million Netherlanders were suddenly under the heel of the Nazi boot. As Third Reich troops swarmed their hometown, the girls sought out a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Beginning with covert acts of resistance – lifting German ID cards to counterfeit, spreading news about strikes, distributing anti-Nazi literature – the girls soon were called on for bigger jobs with higher stakes, from gathering intelligence to detonating bombs. “With nothing to lose but their own lives,” Hannie, Truus, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets. They sheltered Jews, political dissidents, and Dutch resisters. They sabotaged bridges and railways. Disguised, they rescued children from being sent to concentration camps. They covertly transported weapons and set military facilities ablaze. And they carried out the assassinations of German soldiers and traitors—on public streets and in private traps—with the courage and daring of veteran guerilla fighters and seasoned spies. Harrowing, emotional, and unforgettable, Three Ordinary Girls finally moves these three icons of resistance into the deserved forefront of world history.