"A powerful and harrowing book, as well as an inspiring one," writes the Bishop of Oxford. "I am happy to champion publication." Harrowing is indeed the word for what Floris Bakels experienced at the hands of the Nazis. Arrested in Holland, he became one of the forgotten Dutchman of the war, consigned to 'night and mist' status, his whereabouts concealed from all who had known him. It is salutary to read of this precursor in Nazi Europe to the 'disappeared ones' of modern times in other countries.
Bakels was not only one of the survivors, he was one of the few who managed to scratch out...