The Girl with the Red Hair - The powerful novel based on astonishing true story of one woman s

Hiding them is not enough. Hannie is young but she won''t stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip on her country. Recruited into the Resistance, she learns to shoot and is notorious for not missing her targets.
As she draws deeper into a web of plots, disguises and assassinations, whispers spread like wildfire amongst enemies and friends alike. They know her name. She''s "the Girl with Red Hair." A match for any Nazi soldier, a true threat, a target.

Buzzy Jackson''s debut is an unputdownable novel of love, loyalty, and the limits we confront when our deepest values are tested.<>

A propos de l'auteur

Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three non-fiction books and holds a PhD in History from UC Berkeley. She was inspired to write The Girl with the Red Hair - her first novel - after visiting the Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum) in Amsterdam. There, she discovered the story of a young woman named Hannie Schaft, who at nineteen-years-old quit college to fight fascism and became the most wanted woman in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Buzzy lives in Colorado, USA.

Commentaire

Inspiring, empowering, and timely, compellingly detailed and impressively researched, but better still, it's an immersive story of a terrifying warren of history through which our guide is the sort of hero we all need right now: relatable and resolute and absolutely right Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Buzzy Jackson
• Edition: Michael Joseph
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 11.05.2023
• EAN: 9780241553077
• ISBN: 978-0-241-55307-7
• Pages: 464
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > 20e siècle (jusqu'en 1945); FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Netherlands, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust