Postcards from no man's land
By: Aidan Chambers.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Dutton Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction; Unmarried mothers -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- Fiction; Assisted suicide -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Juvenile fiction; Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
Notes: Originally published: London : Random House Children's Books, 1999.