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The Death's Head Chess Club Author: John Donoghue

ISBN: 9781782393115 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 400 Published: 1 April 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.1 x 14.9 x 3.2 Description: A deeply intelligent and page-turning novel that explores the difficulties of guilt and forgiveness in an impossible friendship between a Nazi and a Jew.

A novel of the improbable friendship that arises between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chessplayer in Auschwitz.

SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale and he establishes a chess club, and allows officers and enlisted men to gamble on the games. Soon Meissner learns that chess is also played among the prisoners, and there are rumors of an unbeatable Jew known as "the Watchmaker." Meissner's superiors begin to demand that he demonstrate German superiority by pitting this undefeated Jew against the best Nazi players. Meissner finds Emil Clement, the Watchmaker, and a curious relationship arises between them. As more and more games are played, the stakes rise, and the two men find their fates deeply entwined.

Twenty years later, the two meet again in Amsterdam-Meissner has become a bishop, and Emil is playing in an in...

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