Errors of Judgement SOE's Disaster in the Netherlands 1941-44

Kelso, Nicholas

1st edition hardback in dj , 23 illustrations, 266 pages.  Very good clean condition internally and externally.  No previous owner marks, shows only the bare minimum of handling wear.

The first full account in English of the extraordinary and controversial story of the incompetence of SOE operations in Holland during the Second World War which resulted in the death of over fifty agents.

The operation, known as Englandspiel to the Germans, involved heavy losses and the author investigates the elementary mistakes that contributed to these.

The poor relations between Dutch and British secret services, unrealistic objectives and security weaknesses ensured the SOE was no match for the German counter-espionage organisation in Holland.  Dutch traitors exposed the whole of the SOE network and hundreds of local Resistance workers were made vulnerable, fuelling the argument that SOE Dutch Section was counter productive and a liability to the Allied cause.

Our Ref: S5603

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