Author:
Chambers, Aidan.
Edition Statement:1st American ed.
Imprint:New York : Dutton Books, 2002.
Description312 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally published: London : Random House Children's Books, 1999.
Note:Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.