I Was A Stranger
A World War II, History, War book. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This quotation from one of Milton's...
Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German military police billet. After four months in hiding, Hackett was at last well enough to strap a battered suitcase to an ancient bicycle and set out on a high adventure which would, he hoped, lead him to freedom.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780712665629 / 712665625
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Striking autobiography of a wounded British Brigadier General, given to the care of the Nazis as the British withdrew from the failed attempt to capture Arnheim, then hidden by a Dutch family for more than four months until well enough to bicycle miles in the snow, then cross two rivers to British held territory. Most noteworthy--because... Tells the story of how people risk their lives to aid a total stranger. "They also serve who only stand and wait." This quotation from one of Milton's sonnets sums up John Hackett's attitude toward his time hidden and hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands. He was a brigadier, leading a British parachute company, wounded in the fall of 1944. I give away nothing to say he escaped, the map and fact of the...
