Download or read book The Comfort Bird written by Hylke Speerstra and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fact-based novel, The Comfort Bird follows the experiences of two families of farm laborers from a small town in the Northern Netherlands. One family moves across the ocean in 1911 to seek their fortune on the American Prairies. In a strange twist of fate World War II brings the families together again, on opposing sides of the conflict.