The Death's Head Chess Club

John Donoghue

earliest edition we have, 2015 this edition, 2015 400 pages

SS Obersturmfuhrer 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 t...

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The Death's Head Chess Club paperback · 2016 · Picador · 400 pages · 9781250097125
Death's Head Chess Club edition · 2015 · Atlantic Books, Limited · 300 pages · 9781782393122
Death's Head Chess Club edition · 2015 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374713973
The Death's Head Chess Club edition · 2015 · 400 pages · 9781782396451
The Death's Head Chess Club paperback · Atlantic Books · 9781782393115

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