Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 15/15/106
Title
Commemorative volume, 'Holland and the Canadians', [1945-1946], produced by the Canada-Netherlands Committee
Date(s)
- [1945 - 1946] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Holland and the Canadians (Contact Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Holland, probably 1945-1946), compiled by the Canada-Netherlands Committee as a commemorative gift for the liberating Canadian Army. With text and captions by Maj Norman Phillips, Canadian Army PR Services, and J Mikerk, Secretary Canadian Netherlands Committee, and 150 photographs. Documents Holland before the war; during invasion and occupation including economic exploitation by the Germans, treatment and condition of the civilian population and underground resistance activity; operations of Canadian and other Allied forces advancing into Holland during 1944-1945; German surrender and liberation celebrations. 1 vol