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Michiel discovers this, he initially thinks of throwing the letter away, but eventually he decides to read it. He discovers that Dirk Knopper has been hiding an English pilot called Jack in a self-made burrow in the forest near the village. Dirk had wanted Bertus van Gelder to take over Jack's
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Each day a vast number of city dwellers arrive in the village and several stay in the Van
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Michiel and Dirk striking up a conversation on how they should fight "against war" and not "in war". The last chapter dictates that Michiel, being 43 in 1972, is well aware of the many violent conflicts and wars that have happened all over the world since 1945. Terlouw ends his novel by
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In his 1975 television adaption, director Aart
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air raid and in the afternoon, he feels he is being spied on by
Schafter, a farmer of whom everybody thinks is a secret Nazi ally. Due to this, Michiel fails to deliver the letter. That same day, Bertus van Gelder is arrested by Nazi forces looking for that letter.
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office to steal ration cards as part of the
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Michiel secretly dreams of becoming a
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in the local parish. Due to the fact that Terlouw's father was involved in the local community as a result of being a dominee, he was arrested twice by the Nazi forces, but released each time after a few days.
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is one of the most popular Dutch books of the postwar period. It sold an estimated half a million copies, and library estimates indicate that more than a million children read the book.
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On a day in late 1944, 21-year-old Dirk Knopper, who lives opposite to the Van Beusekom house, tells Michiel a secret. Together with two others, Dirk is planning an attack on the local
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The novel is partially autobiographical. Terlouw, like the protagonist Michiel, was unable to go to school in the last winter of the war due to ongoing bombardments on bridges over the
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When Michiel tries to deliver the letter to Bertus van Gelder the following morning, he receives several setbacks. First his bike breaks, then he gets delayed by an
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Mr Posthuma, the head of the Resistance in de Vlank is also nowhere close to the descriptions of a heroic leader, but rather a shy and reserved school teacher.
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