For a Lost Soldier is Rudi van Dantzig's account of life as an eleven-year-old boy enduring World War II in The Netherlands. Evacuated in 1944 from the bustling but starving city of Amsterdam to the fertile farmland of Friesland, young Jeroen learns about another way of life and experiences both love and loss as he lives out the final months of the war and welcomes the Allied soldiers who free his country.