This book is an important, powerful, and gripping story about three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who join the Dutch resistance after their country is occupied by the Nazis during World War II.
Through her research of available sources, her interviews and conversations with the two Oversteegen sisters, with whom she became friends, and others who knew and worked with the three girls during their work in the resistance, as well as eyewitness accounts, Sophie Poldermans takes us on a harrowing journey in which we follow the three girls from their younger years to their meeting, friendship, and decision to become resistance fighters.