# The Assault

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- Book: [The Assault](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-mulisch/the-assault) ([The Assault.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-mulisch/the-assault.md))
- Authors: [Harry Mulisch](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-mulisch)
- Publisher: pantheon
- ISBN: 978-03-9474-420-9
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1986-03-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by...