The Red Head: A Novel Based on the Life of Hannie Schaft (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244183092)

In Nazi-occupied Holland, a young law student is inducted into the Dutch Resistance by a charismatic leader and becomes the most feared assassin of World War II, targeting high-ranking Nazi officials while evading capture. As her legend grows, so does the cost of violence-culminating in a final confrontation with the Reich's cold, calculating machinery of terror. Based on the life of Hannie Schaft, The Red Head is a gripping prestige WWII thriller novel about courage, sacrifice, and the power of resistance.

This biographical novel is based on the life of Hannie Schaft (1920-1945), one of the most courageous and iconic figures of the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War.

Born Jannetje Johanna Schaft in Haarlem, the Netherlands, Hannie was a law student who chose to resist Nazi occupation rather than adapt to it. She became known to the German authorities as "the girl with the red hair"-a symbol of defiance, intelligence, and moral clarity in an era defined by fear and betrayal. Her actions saved lives, disrupted the occupying regime, and inspired others to resist, often at great personal cost.

This story is offered not as a replacement for history, but as a companion to it-an attempt to restore human depth to a young woman who has too often been reduced to a symbol alone. Hannie Schaft was not only a resistance fighter; she was a daughter, a friend, a student, and a person who made conscious moral choices in a world that punished such choices with brutality.

She was executed by the Nazis in April 1945, just weeks before the liberation of the Netherlands. She was twenty-four years old.

Author: Susan Goforth,Timothy Hines
ISBN-13: 9798244183092
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2026
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d