Wim de Vriend
Author
Publisher
Golden Falls Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Reflections of a self-described Dutch curmudgeon operating a German restaurant in a down-at-the-heels logging town on the southern Oregon coast. Interwoven with his observations on matters cultural and culinary are images and family stories of World War II Holland.
Author
Publisher
Golden Falls Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Everybody's war is the personal journal of Wim de Vriend, a Dutch immigrant who runs a German restaurant on the Oregon coast.While relating unusual, often funny stories about his restaurant customers, he can't avoid straying into his memories of World War II, in occupied Holland. He takes you on tours of the lives of Dutch people during that occupation, of American and German soldiers, persecuted Jews, and German civilians whom the war brutalized,...