Author: DOUW VAN DER KRAP, CH. L.J.F.,
Title: Contra de swastika. De strijd van een onverzettelijke Nederlandse marineofficier in bezet Europa, 1940-1945. First edn.
Description: Bussum-Antwerpen, Van Holkema & Warendorf/Standaard Uitgeverij, 1981. orig. limp pict. col. glossy wraps. 320pp. Ills. on 24 plates, 2 full-p. plans: Warschau and P.O.W. camp Colditz-castle with legenda. Author's recollections of his experiences as a dutch navy officer in various p.o.w. camps in germany as Juliusburg, Colditz, Stanislau. After 13 attempts he escapes from the nazi's and reaches Warschau, participates with the 1944 uprisings, reaches the Netherlands and serves with the resistance during the operation Market-garden and the battle of Arnhem and finally reaches London. Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). Very good copy.

Keywords: second world war p.o.w. resistance juliusburg colditz stanislau war recollections