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The Death's Head Chess Club

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Death's Head Chess Club

By John Donoghue

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About the book

Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?In 1962, Emil Clement comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clement, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish former inmate of Auschwitz. Whilst there, he was forced to play chess against Nazi guards. If he won, he could save a fellow prisoner's life; if he lost, he would lose his own. Meissner, a soft-spoken priest, was also at Auschwitz. He was the SS Officer who f...Show more

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9781782393139

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published year

2015

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The Death's Head Chess Club

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Paperback

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