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The Lamb's War
The Lamb's War
Author: Jan de Hartog
Jan de Hartog's nobel opens in Nazi-occupied Europe and moves to the American Southwest. It tells a most drmatic and soul-stirring story and dares to ask the ultimate questions: "Why are we here and why do we act as we do?" At the heart of the novel is the relationship between a Dutch girl and an American boy. The story is played out against ...  more »
ISBN: 322013
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 461
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Publisher: Harper and Row
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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An idealistic Quaker ambulance driver stationed in Europe marries a young Dutch girl, also a Quaker, recently liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and returns with her to America, where they take up the cause of the American Indians. The story is played out against the background of today's Quaker and Indian values as they strive to preserve moral and ethical values in a world that often seems mad--a world that mocks the efforts to pursue non-violence, compassion and love.


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