Wat ik nog weet is a book of memoires by the Dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt. Although the book starts with some impressions that she must have heard later, it seems her earliest recollection dates from the mobilization for World War I. Since that must have been in the summer of 1914, she was just 3 years old when she heard the mounted cavallery pass her home. (She was born in May 1911.)

Most memoires collected in this volume describe life during that quarter of a century between 1914 and 1945, with emphasis on the first quarter of the century. The Netherlands was still a very poor country then, with considerable death rates among young children, and cold winters affecting people living in large, cold houses. The author grew up in Zeeland, where religion was a close phenomenon in the local village communities.

A very readable book about a time which now lies 100 years behind us. This book was first published in 1992. Annie M.G. Schmidt died in 1995 at the age of 84. ( )