Brongers, E.H.
The Battle for The Hague, 1940
Soesterberg: Aspekt, 2004
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 293
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Feedback from Tonuy van Renterghem on Monday, 3 January 2005
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A truly excellent description of the intense and often close combat in which I personally took part. Brongers succeeds in making the reader understand the indignation which the Dutch felt when their neutral nation was so viciosly, brutally and treacherously invaded, often causing young,raw recruits to fight and die with the courage and dedication of career Marines. I'm probably somewhat prejudiced, since I happen to feature in the book, but I admire the way in which Brongers allows the reader a close-up view of hundreds of intense small scale actions in which small rag-tag Dutch units stopped and defeated the far better trained and armed elite German paratroopers and airlanding units, in spite of intense attacks by the Luftwaffe's Stukkas. A "must read" book about "real" war. Tony van Renterghem
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An amazing and very exciting book about the defeat of the German Airborne division and Paratroopers. A must-read for WWII buffs. The only book I know of to have revealed this long-hidden--and vital--German defeat.
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A beter name for the book seems to me, "A victory in an lost war".
Indeed an exellent history-telling about a battle where my father took part in.
A victory because HMS the Queen and her cabinet could escape to England! About 1600 Fallschirmjägers where take POW in a few days and where transported to England. The German airforce lost more then 220 aircrafts in this little area in five days, never be seen in the 2e WW. And last but not least, the gold from the Netherlands Bank was saved also to England. (Dutch habit)
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