THINGS WE COULDN'T SAY
By Diet Eman with James Schaap
Monarch. 396 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 85424 614 3
A thrilling holiday read! An emotionally-charged true story! Things we couldn't say reads like a thriller and is one of the most absorbing books that I have ever read.
It is the story of a heroic young Dutch couple who risked everything to save Jews in wartime Holland. Together they set up safe houses, evaded patrols and house searches, misled the Gestapo, smuggled money, forged documents and established escape routes. All this activity cost Diet her freedom and her fiance his life, but through it all their faith in Christ and their love for one another shine brightly.
The book relies heavily on Diet's diary and the letters which she both wrote and received from her fiance, and in them we cannot but be turned to their loving heavenly Father who, in the midst of such trauma and suffering, sustained them in their work and witness.
This is a book whose spiritual impact and dramatic account of the way in which God helped his people in time of great trial should not be missed.
