# The Death’s Head Chess Club

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- Book: [The Death’s Head Chess Club](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-donoghue/the-deaths-head-chess-club) ([The Death’s Head Chess Club.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-donoghue/the-deaths-head-chess-club.md))
- Authors: [John Donoghue](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-donoghue)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8239-313-9
- Published: 2015-09-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Can you ever forgive the unforgivable? In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven’t seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish former inmate of Auschwitz. Whilst there, he was forced to play chess against Nazi guards. If he won, he could save a fellow prisoner’s life; if he lost, he would lose his own. Meissner, a soft-spoken priest, was also at Auschwitz. He was the SS Officer who forced The Watchmaker to play…