![]() ![]() Tamar and Dart, his WO (wireless operator), are sent into the Netherlands to organize the different resistance groups into a more cohesive unit. ![]() In this point in time the Netherlands is occupied by the Nazis, and the Dutch resistance is "a bloody shambles". The story centers on two Dutch men codenamed Tamar and Dart, who are agents of a covert military group called the Special Operations Executive, or SOE. Part of the book takes place in 1945 the Netherlands, during the last part of World War II. division Candlewick Press published the first North American edition in February 2007, entitled Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal. According to WorldCat, it is his work most widely held in participating libraries. Peet won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. ![]() The novel interweaves past and present to show the lasting effects of war and the passions it arouses. ![]() Within a 1995 frame story, where a 15-year-old girl inherits papers and other mementos from her deceased grandfather, it is set in the occupied Netherlands near the end of the Second World War there it features two British-trained Dutch agents and the resistance to German occupation of the Netherlands. Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal is a young-adult novel by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2005. ![]()
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