The Day All of Alkmaar Fought

"The Day All of Alkmaar Fought" drops readers into the 1573 siege of Alkmaar, where ten-year-old Griet is jolted awake by twenty cannons firing at once. As Spanish soldiers storm the breached city walls three times in a single day, every person in town — bakers, blacksmiths, mothers, and children — defends their home with whatever they can carry. Griet hauls baskets of rubble under cannon fire while her mother pours boiling limewater from the ramparts, and the fate of the city hangs on whether ordinary people can hold together under impossible pressure.

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