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The Death's Head chess club

Donoghue, John 1956- (author. ).

Summary: 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 as "the Watchmaker," is a Jewish former inmate of Auschwitz, where he was forced to play against the Nazi guards. If he won, he could save a fellow prisoner's life - but if he lost, he would lose his own. Meissner, a soft-spoken bishop, was also at Auschwitz. He was the SS officer who forced the Watchmaker to play, so that the guards might test their superiority against the rumored talents of the "unbeatable Jew." As Emil and Meissner begin to search for a medicum of peace, they reflect on their shared history, recalling a gripping tale of survival and, ultimately, of trust.

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  • ISBN: 9781250097125
  • Physical Description: print
    vi, 385 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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"Originally published in 2015 by Atlantic Books, Great Britain."

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Genre: Historical fiction.
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