"No nation conquered by the Axis forces during World War II shed less blood or suffered lighter physical devastation than Germany's Nordic neighbor, Denmark. That little kingdom's relative good fortune did not extend, though, to the toll taken on the Danes' collective soul. In their bargain with the devil to survive the five-year Nazi occupation only lightly scarred, they nurtured their conquerors with an abundance of food and serviced their pulverizing war machine. As a result, Denmark was perceived by many among the ...
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"No nation conquered by the Axis forces during World War II shed less blood or suffered lighter physical devastation than Germany's Nordic neighbor, Denmark. That little kingdom's relative good fortune did not extend, though, to the toll taken on the Danes' collective soul. In their bargain with the devil to survive the five-year Nazi occupation only lightly scarred, they nurtured their conquerors with an abundance of food and serviced their pulverizing war machine. As a result, Denmark was perceived by many among the Allies as a de facto collaborator with Hitler's maniacal onslaught against civilization. Fearful of openly resisting at risk of lethal mass reprisals - and instructed not to by their king and his obedient government - the Danes had only three means of defiance: stealthy hatred, anguished resignation, and insistent protection of their tiny Jewish population otherwise doomed to extermination. Hamlet's Children, an historical novel by Richard Kluger, is the story of this profound national trauma as witnessed through the prism of American teenager Terry Sayre, who finds himself marooned in the homeland of his Danish ancestors for the duration of the conflict. Beyond his coming-of-age struggle to assimilate with his Mundt family relatives and their neighbors in the coastal town of Riishavn, Terry is caught up in the vise pressing upon his adopted countrymen as they apply daring and guile to confound the German occupation forces. Vibrant with memorable characters and fraught with tension throughout its telling, this artfully crafted narrative, both uplifting and heartbreaking, is a testament to the human spirit in its darkest hours"--
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