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Captain Jan: A Story of Ocean Tugboats (1940)
by Jan de Hartog
Translated by Carlos Peacock
Original title: Hollands glorie
Hollands Glorie was first published in 1940, shortly after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands. Buying this novel of Dutch heroism on the high seas was then an act of symbolic resistance and quickly turned the book into one of the supreme bestsellers of twentieth-century Dutch literature.  (more...)



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