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The Death's Head Chess Club
by John Donoghue - £7.99 Atlantic Books (2015)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781782393139 | ISBN 10: 1782393137
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?
In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, 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...
(Price & availability last checked: September 2015)
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