Three Ordinary Girls is a non-fiction account of Dutch teenagers Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen and her sister, Freddie Oversteegen. The trio became active in the Dutch resistance during WWII, hiding Jewish people fleeing the occupying Nazis, conducting spy missions and even carrying out assassinations. It’s a remarkable story well deserving of a great book, but on that score author Tim Brady has fallen short of the mark. Brady’s account is unfocused and often feels like it is substituting minimally researched information about the Netherlands in […]