I Was A Stranger
Author: Hackett, John
ISBN: 9780712665629
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
'A classic memoir of the Second World War. ' The Economist.
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.
ISBN: 9780712665629
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
'A classic memoir of the Second World War. ' The Economist.
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.
