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

 

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 (50) agents. The poor relations between the British and Dutch secret services, the unrealistic objectives set for the Dutch SOE agents & the inherent weaknesses in security ensured that SOE were no match for the Germans' highly efficient & successful counter-espionage organizations in Holland. Through Dutch traitors the whole of the SOE network was exposed & Dutch Section handed the Germans leads to hundreds of local Resistance workers, thus fuelling the argument that SOE Dutch Section was actually counterproductive & a liability to the Allied cause.

 

Nicholas Kelso

Hardcover with d/w 266pp Robert Hale 1988 1st Ed

 

Vg/Vg

Book Code:  SA0039