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The Death's Head Chess Club

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The Death's Head Chess Club

Written by: John Donoghue
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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SS Obersturmführer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front. After being badly wounded he is fit only for administrative duty, and his first and most pressing task is to improve flagging camp morale. He sets up a chess club which thrives, as the officers and enlisted men are allowed to gamble on the results of the games. However, when Meissner learns from a chance remark that chess is also played by the prisoners, he hears of a Jewish watchmaker who is “unbeatable”. Meissner sets out to discover the truth behind this rumour, and what he finds will haunt him to his death....

©2015 John Donoghue (P)2015 Isis Publishing Ltd
Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction War & Military World Literature
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