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The Death's Head Chess Club
John DonoghueRRP: £9.99
3 September 2015
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781782393139
RRP: £6.99
5 March 2015
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781782393122
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…
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