Death's Head Chess Club

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ISBN: 9781782393139

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	DONOGHUE JOHN
Pub Date	03/09/2015
Binding	Paperback
Pages	400

Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS

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Readers have been blown away by The Death's Head Chess Club - a deeply poignant and moving debut novel about the extraordinary relationship between an SS officer and a Jewish watchmaker.

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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 forced The Watchmaker to play...