The uprising of Georgian prisoners-of-war on the Dutch island of Texel and the sub-sequent massacre is one of the great but little known stories of World War II. This is the story of seventeen-year-old Dirk Verkerk, son of a Texel farmer, who joined the Dutch Resistance in 1942. Two years later he was caught in an act of sabotage, but managed to escape. After the war Dirk returns to Texel and l