...O, dat wintertje '45... Een Vluchtige maar Luchtige Herinnering aan de Laatste (?) Oorlogswinter
Laren - Gooi: "Kleur en Beeld" 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. [80]pp. Original quarter cloth over illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers and title page.
Illustrated with numerous b/w illustrations, this clandestine work was published in the last months of the German occupation of Holland. Its caricatures and humorous text documents the 'Hongerwinter'* ("Hunger winter") of 1944-1945, a dramatic period in the history of the Netherlands. [DEJONG 614]
Rear hinge starting. Minor and slight discoloration and age-toning along edges of binding. Text in Dutch. Binding in overall good+, interior in good+ to very good condition. g+ to vg. Item #40681
*The Dutch famine of 1944, known as the Hongerwinter ("Hunger winter") in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the German-occupied part of the Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces north of the great rivers, during the winter of 1944-45, near the end of World War II. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived because of soup kitchens. As many as 22,000 may have died because of the famine; one author estimated 18,000. Loe de Jong (1914-2005), author of "The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II," estimated at least 22,000 deaths.
Price: $275.00