Star of Peace

by Jan de Hartog

Captain Kuiper and his Dutch freighter, "Star of Peace," carry a human cargo of 250 Jews from Nazi Germany to South America in 1939

376 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1945

About the author

Jan de Hartog (1914 – 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. From then on he wrote in English.
At the beginning of his career he wrote five detective novels about the adventures of Commissioner Wiebe Poesiat and inspector Gregor Boyarski at the metropolitan harbor police under the pseudonym F.R. Eckmar

Johannes (Jan) de Hartog was een Nederlandse schrijver van romans, toneelstukken en filmscenario's, vooral gekend om zijn romans over de scheepvaart.
In het begin van zijn carrière schreef hij, onder het pseudoniem F.R. Eckmar, ook een vijftal detectieveromans over de avonturen van commissaris Wiebe Poesiat en inspecteur Gregor Boyarski bij de hoofdstedelijke havenpolitie.

Reviews

[Jerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, seemed like an honest consideration of the challenges of living with integrity. Well written but not great literature.

[Veronica Uribe · Rating 4 out of 5]

ABSOLUTELY GREAT HISTORY ABOUT JEWS AND THEIR RELOCATION

[Nero Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting.¡¡¡¡¡♡☆♡.

[Bev Walkling · Rating 5 out of 5]

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