Dancing in Bomb Shelters - Johanna Wycoff (A diary of Holland in WW2)

Finished that one last night. It tells the story of 18 year old Johanna de Wilde living in Nijmegen Netherlands during the war. She kept a diary which described German invasion briefly then jumps to August 1942 (between 1940-42 several pages are missing because they were torn out by authors mother in case they were found by Nazis and used to arrest them. ) She describes vividly harsh times and conditions of occupation , brutality of Germans (had no idea they were so cruel and oppresive to regular Dutch people , I assumed Nazis would be easier on them since they were Nordic like Danes ) , deprivations , growing up as a teenager and youngster , friendships , social gatherings and romances she had in wartime and then real impressive part , Allied invasion of Europe and Operation Market Garden in September 1944. She describes landing of first airborne troops , fighting inside city and next nine months as entire Nijmegen became actually a front line city , conditions living in a liberated but half destroyed town under constant German shelling and bombing , her family's and her own relations , friendships she struck with Allied soldiers billeted in her family house. It is quite informative highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Bomb-Shelters-Diary-Holland/dp/145020757X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368943590&sr=1-1&keywords=dancing+in+bomb+shelters

Note : Author Johanna de Wilde moved to Canada then USA after the war and married there. She lives in League City Texas.