The last move
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The last move
9.99 €
Readers of The Tattooed Man from Auschwitz and The Girl from Germany, as well as fans of The Queen's Walk series, won't want to miss this amazing debut, set during World War II.
The year is 1941, Warsaw is occupied by German troops. Maria Florkowska is only fourteen, but she already dreams of becoming a world chess champion. In the meantime, she spends her days practicing with her father, and in the evenings she becomes a member of the Polish Resistance. Once on a mission she makes a fatal mistake, and she and her family are sent to Auschwitz, where political prisoners have only one way - to the execution wall. But about her skills as a chess player learns the deputy commandant of the camp, Karl Fritsch. He decides to use the girl for his own amusement - to organize tournaments between her and other prisoners, the price of losing in which is death. Maria struggles every day, wanting to survive at all costs, to get out of the camp and make her family's killers pay for what they have done.
The year is 1941, Warsaw is occupied by German troops. Maria Florkowska is only fourteen, but she already dreams of becoming a world chess champion. In the meantime, she spends her days practicing with her father, and in the evenings she becomes a member of the Polish Resistance. Once on a mission she makes a fatal mistake, and she and her family are sent to Auschwitz, where political prisoners have only one way - to the execution wall. But about her skills as a chess player learns the deputy commandant of the camp, Karl Fritsch. He decides to use the girl for his own amusement - to organize tournaments between her and other prisoners, the price of losing in which is death. Maria struggles every day, wanting to survive at all costs, to get out of the camp and make her family's killers pay for what they have done.
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