My Sister and I : The Diary of a Dutch Boy Refugee

van der Heide, Dirk (translated By Mrs. Antoon Deventer)

JB13834 Harcourt Brace and Company New York, NY, U.S.A. 1941 Fourth Printing, January 1941 Dust Jacket Fair Price Clipped Hard Cover Good Blue cloth on boards. Ex-Library with usual stamps, markings, labels, pocket and one borrowers list intact. Something was removed from fep. leaving paper and glue reside. Volume corners are bent and there is shelf wear. Jacket is worn, torn, stained, pieces worn away. Now in clear cover. "The best selling wartime diary of a 12-year-old Dutch boy who survived the German invasion of Rotterdam, and then the bombing of London, before escaping to America, with his sister." [The diary continues to be read and commented upon as if it were authentic. But a new book, Witness to War (Doubleday 2004), by the leading intelligence historian Professor Richard Aldrich, alleges that Dirk van der Heide's diary was part of a vast campaign by British Secret Services to lure America into the conflict.] $20.00USD
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