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Summary: You will never forget *The Assault*
Review: This is a wonderful and moving book. Without any sensationalism or sentimentality, Harry Mulisch's story sucks you in. When it finally spits you out again you will be changed.
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Summary: The best Dutch book on WW2
Review: This must be the best book written about the German occupens of the Netherlands in WW2. It's a true story of a family in the war. Read it and weap.
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Summary: A Masterwork
Review: When my work took me to Holland for a few months, I asked people there what Dutch novels they would recommend. They all said "The Assault". It would certainly be an exageration to say that Holland has no literature, but not much of an exageration. It is renowned for its great painters and architects, not its writers. But in "The Assault" at least, they have produced an indisputable masterpiece. If you read just one Dutch novel, this has to be it.An exquisitely poignant evocation of life in German-occupied Holland in World War II, it invites the reader to make moral judgements and then systematically undermines those judgements. It is a restrained, undemonstrative, beautifully written work that unfolds gradually and in a most unexpected way. Highly recommended.
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