Dutch history
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Book ReviewsThe Little Riders
by Margaretha Shemin illustrated by Peter Spier 1963 / 76 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is a Dutch World War II story with a difference: one…
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AnimatedThe Corrie ten Boom Story
Animated / Biography / Drama 2013 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 What’s an appropriate age to expose our children to the truth about Nazis, concentration…
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Adult biographiesThe Watchmaker’s Daughter
The true story of World War II heroine Corrie Ten Boom by Larry Loftis 2023 / 384 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Larry Loftis is an international bestselling…
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Adult non-fictionThe Political Consequences of Unbelief: a review of Groen van Prinsterer’s “Unbelief and Revolution”
Unbelief and Revolution by Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer translated by Harry Van Dyke 1847/2018 / 280 pages As explained in the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Revolution, in…
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DocumentaryHidden Heroes
Documentary / WWII 50 min / 1999 Rating: 8/10 Among the “hidden heroes” of World War II were the thousands of Dutchmen who opened their…
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Book ReviewsThe New Has Come
by Christine Farenhorst 2022 / 262 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I’ve seen another reviewer suggest that this might be Christine Farenhorst’s best book yet, and I…
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Adult biographiesListen! Six Men You Should Know
by Christine Farenhorst 161 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The six men we get introduced to here are given 25-30 pages each which is enough…
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Book ReviewsCorrie ten Boom: the courageous woman and the secret room
by Laura Caputo-Wickham 2021 / 24 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give For such a short one, this picture book sure fits a lot inside. We meet Corrie ten…
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Book ReviewsJourney Through the Night
by Anne De Vries 372 pages / 1951 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Christian writers these days, they just don’t know subtlety. They write miraculous stories where the…
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Remembrance DayOperation Manna
**** You can download or listen to the podcast version (6 minutes) here. It was a bad time to be Dutch. The winter of 1944-1945 was…
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Adult fictionChasing Shadows
432 pages / 2021 by Lynn Austin Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Chasing Shadows takes place in WWII Holland and is a novel about choices and consequences. Miriam, a…
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Book ReviewsA Family Secret (2 books)
by Eric Heuvel 2009 / 64 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT It’s Queen’s Day in the Netherlands, and the celebrations include nationwide rummage sales. So young Jeroen…
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Book ReviewsGutsy Girls Book Two: Sisters, Corrie & Betsie ten Boom
by Amy L. Sullivan 2016 / 36 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This is the true story of two Dutch sisters who knew that God could be trusted…
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People we should knowBetsie, the watchmaker’s daughter
Extraordinary stories of extraordinary men and women make up the fabric of history books: men and women who by some incident in their lives have…
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DocumentaryThe Reckoning: remembering the Dutch Resistance
Documentary 96 min / 2006 Rating: 7/10 My grandfather never talked about the war but I knew he had been involved in the Dutch Resistance….
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HistorySlip sliding away: a very different chapter in Dutch history
You can download or listen to the podcast version (5 minutes) here. **** Paul Simon once sang that the nearer your destination, the more you keep slip…
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Book ReviewsBlueberries for the Queen
by John and Katherine Paterson2004 / 32 pages I hate blueberries but I loved this book. In this true story set in Lee, Massachusetts in…