Mar 17, 2010 · The AssaultHarry MulischIn 1945, in the final throes of the Nazi occupation of Haarlem, Anton Steenwijk's parents and older brother are ...
A hated Dutch police officer working for the Germans is murdered in front of Anton's house. His Jewish family, mother, father and brother, were killed by the ...
In a newspaper poll of 2007, Dutch readers voted it 'the best Dutch-language book ever'. Siegfried (2001), a dazzling literary investigation into the rise of ...
Apr 9, 2009 · Harry Mulisch: Understanding War ... The Assault by Harry Mulisch is a beautifully written book, starting with its lyrical prologue in which we ...
Apr 25, 2017 · It all happened with the shot of a Nazi collaborator who was cycling on his street and whose corpse was then moved by the neighbours in front of ...
Oct 16, 2015 · Mulisch also pulls no punches in relation to the dead body that inspires the assault. When Fake Ploeg is shot a neighbour moves the corpse so ...
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May 11, 2011 · The Assault, probably Mulisch's most well known work, is to my mind the best account ever written of being a non-Jew in an occupied Nazi ...
Nov 2, 2010 · Harry Mulisch, the Dutch writer who died on Saturday aged 83, escaped the concentration camps with his Jewish mother because his father ...
Jun 21, 2012 · The execution of a collaborator and Nazi retaliation on the family of twelve-year-old Anton Steenwijk have lasting repercussions in Anton's ...