Winter in wartime /
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: London : Pushkin Children's, 2019Description: 220 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782691839 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Oorlogswinter. English Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. -- Netherlands | Netherlands -- Fiction. -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945Genre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Older Teenage Fiction. | General. | Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction DDC classification: 839.31364 Summary: Laura Watkinson translates this Dutch children's classic in which Michiel becomes embroiled in the resistance in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. As the Second World War approaches its end, the Netherlands are still under Nazi control and any acts of resistance are punishable by death. But when sixteen-year-old Michiel is asked to take care of a wounded British Spitfire pilot he doesn't think twice. He joins the secret struggle against the Nazis, working every day to end the occupation and protect those in danger from it, knowing all the time that spies are everywhere and one loose work could cost him his life.
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Translated from the Dutch.
This translation originally published: 2018.
Laura Watkinson translates this Dutch children's classic in which Michiel becomes embroiled in the resistance in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. As the Second World War approaches its end, the Netherlands are still under Nazi control and any acts of resistance are punishable by death. But when sixteen-year-old Michiel is asked to take care of a wounded British Spitfire pilot he doesn't think twice. He joins the secret struggle against the Nazis, working every day to end the occupation and protect those in danger from it, knowing all the time that spies are everywhere and one loose work could cost him his life.