Ebook: Dutch girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

Indhold: Cauldron (Rapture ; The blood of Frisia ; Exile ; Edda ; The unthinkable ; Dancer) ; Long live Oranje! (Pencil scratches ; Unacceptable ; Born for the spotlight ; Death candidate ; Paranoid ; The secret) ; Resistance (Soul sister ; Just Dutchmen ; Warmest praise ; Black evenings ; Het vaderland ; If, if, if ; The hun on the run) ; The liberators (The Netherlands in five days ; Ultimatum ; The devil's picnic ; Cakewalk ; Aflame ; Champagne for one) ; Toys (The princess ; Hunters ; The magic stamp ; Streaking evil ; Peace on earth. Yeah, right) ; Pursued (A tree ; The race ; Gates of hell ; First cigarette ; Sorting ; Crossroads ; Completely nuts ; Peace);Audrey Hepburn's war included participation in the Dutch Resistance, working as a doctor's assistant during the "Bridge Too Far" battle of Arnhem, the brutal execution of her uncle, and the ordeal of the Hunger Winter of 1944. She also had to contend with the fact that her father was a Nazi agent and her mother was pro-Nazi for the first two years of the occupation. Audrey's own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classified Dutch archives shed light on the riveting, untold story of Audrey Hepburn under fire in World War II