Author: MACKENZIE C.B.
Title: It was like this! (Zo was het!). A Short Factual Account of the Battle of Arnhem and Oosterbeek. Foreword by Major-General R E Urquhart. [Translation by W. Van der Heide]. Thirteenth Edition.
Description: Stichting AIrborne Museum, Oosterbeek,, 1981. 8vo., Thirteenth Edition, parallel text in English and Dutch, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and a full-page map in the text, small neat signature on half-title; original photographic wrappers printed in red and black, a near fine copy. Mackenzie was Principal General Staff Officer of 1 Airborne Division. Well-illustrated booklet first issued in 1954. The photographs include the 'icons' (including Urquhart at Hartenstein, the GPR at the School and Sherriff's 75mm) but also a good many not easily available elsewhere. Particularly valuable are the images of the Airborne Memorial Days 1946-1969 (including shots of Hackett, Hicks, Horrocks, Sosabowski, Urquhart and Warrack).

Keywords: military, ww2, arnhem, oosterbeek, holland, 1 airborne, market garden, c.b. mackenzie, military, wwii, arnhem, was, like, this, (zo, was, het)


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