About 75 book-party guests were treated at the Parish Hall to an evening of lively conversation, autographs for their books, and Gerard van Veen (sitting) reading passages from his World War II title “Schoolboy in Wartime – Memories of My Early Years.”
The weekend affair was followed by a book review from Gerard van Engelen in an Alkmaar newspaper calling “Schoolboy in Wartime” a “jewel.” Published by House of Nehesi Publishers, the new book recounts dramatic and dangerous experiences of the writer’s family and of his own childhood in Alkmaar during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. “Schoolboy in Wartime” is available at Van Dorp and Arnia’s bookstores and at www.spdbooks.org.
