The Girl with the Red Hair: The powerful novel based on the astonishing true story of one woman's fight in WWII

Author(s): Buzzy Jackson

Historical Fiction

The powerful novel based on the astonishing true story of one woman's fight in WWII... An unputdownable debut charting the thrilling life and heroism of Hannie Schaft, a young-woman-turned-Dutch-Resistance-fighter in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.Hannie Schaft didn't train to be a soldier- she had dreams of her own. But dreams die in wartime, and her friends are no longer safe.Hiding them is not enough. Hannie is young but she won't stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip on her country. Recruited into the Resistance, she learns to shoot and is notorious for not missing her targets.As she draws deeper into a web of plots, disguises and assassinations, whispers spread like wildfire amongst enemies and friends alike. They know her name. She's "the Girl with Red Hair." A match for any Nazi soldier, a true threat, a target.Buzzy Jackson's debut is an unputdownable novel of love, loyalty, and the limits we confront when our deepest values are tested.


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Inspiring, empowering, and timely, compellingly detailed and impressively researched, but better still, it's an immersive story of a terrifying warren of history through which our guide is the sort of hero we all need right now: relatable and resolute and absolutely right * Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS * The Girl with the Red Hair brings Hannie alive and I finished it in almost one gulp! What an amazing, inspiring, true-life hero she was ... An engrossing read. * GWEN STRAUSS, author of THE NINE: THE TRUE STORY OF A BAND OF WOMEN WHO SURVIVED THE WORST OF NAZI GERMANY *

Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three non-fiction books and holds a PhD in History from UC Berkeley. She was inspired to write The Girl with the Red Hair - her first novel - after visiting the Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum) in Amsterdam. There, she discovered the story of a young woman named Hannie Schaft, who at nineteen-years-old quit college to fight fascism and became the most wanted woman in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Buzzy lives in Colorado, USA.

General Fields

  • : 9780241553077
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Michael Joseph
  • : 0.612
  • : 01 May 2023
  • : 4 Centimeters X 15.3 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Buzzy Jackson
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813.6