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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Truus Oversteegen, born in 1923, was a witness to the worldwide struggles of the Great Depression. She remembered the miseries and struggles of those times as if they were still happening outside her window in Haarlem.
#2 Trijntje Oversteegen, the mother of Truus and Freddie, was a leftist who raised her daughters with leftist values. When the Great Depression hit,...
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"The astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen fulfilled their harrowing missions as spies, saboteurs, and Nazi assassins with remarkable courage, but their stories have remained...
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May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and "with nothing to lose but their own lives," Hannie,...