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The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland 1944-1945

The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland 1944-1945 Paperback / softback - 1998

by Henri A. van der Zee

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Paperback / softback. New. A history of the Netherlands during the nine months prior to the end of the Second World War.
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  • Title The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland 1944-1945
  • Author Henri A. van der Zee
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 347
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780803296183
  • ISBN 9780803296183 / 0803296185
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.04 x 0.82 in (22.89 x 15.34 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Benelux
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Netherlands - History - German occupation,, Food supply - Netherlands - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98033495
  • Dewey Decimal Code 949.207

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From the rear cover

Germany invaded the Netherlands in the spring of 1940. Life in occupied Holland was hideous enough, but for the Dutch the worst was yet to come. After the Western Allies lost the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, the Dutch provinces north of the Rhine and Waal Rivers were in the hands of the Germans, and to the south fighting raged for months. In the winter of 1944-45, just as other parts of Europe were being liberated, the Dutch seemed forsaken by the Allies, who bypassed Holland on their drive to Berlin.

That last winter of the war, with its severe food and fuel shortages, was a terrible one for the Dutch people, who also suffered from episodes of Nazi terrorism. In some provinces there was nothing to eat but tulip bulbs and sugar beets, and eighteen thousand Dutch civilians actually starved to death. Henri van der Zee, who was ten years old that winter, remembers what happened to his people.

About the author

With Barbara van der Zee, Henri van der Zee is the author of William and Mary and A Sweet and Alien Land: The Story of Dutch New York.