THE GERMANS ARE COMING
Watching the parachutes fall from his home on the Dutch coast is former footballer Billy Marsden. It is ten years to the day since a German surgeon saved his life in a Berlin hospital after he suffered a career ending spinal injury while playing for England – the irony isn't lost on him that now it is a German invasion that is putting his life in jeopardy.
DOGFIGHTS OVER THE HAGUE
In The Hague, Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler’s Wells Ballet watch the dogfights from the roof of their hotel. In Amsterdam British journalist David Woodward and his American wife, NBC war correspondent Margaret Rupli, are trying to file the story of the invasion, while young British diplomat, Peers Carter, organises an evacuation just eight months into his career.
THE LAST BOAT HOME
In Haarlem the English manager of the Dutch national team, Bob Glendenning, is also looking for a way to flee the country. Set across one weekend in May 1940, this is the story of how these people came together, along with three million pounds of industrial diamonds, to escape on the last British boat before the country capitulated.
What the critics have said about
'ESCAPE FROM HOLLAND' by Chris Hunt
"Book of the Week – it's a brilliant true story that reads like a thriller. I urge you to get hold of a copy”
– Paul Ross, Talk Sport/Talk Radio
"What an incredible story. It's a brilliant book, incredibly well researched. The attention to detail is absolutely exceptional”
– Tim Caple, Talking Sports Books podcast