ROYAL NETHERLANDS NAVY
NAVIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

AUTHOR - H.T. Lenton

PUBLICATION - MacDonald London 1968

CONDITION - Good condition. Other than previous owner's stamp on front endpaper is clean and bright throughout, binding very good. Dustwrapper is torn and there is chipping across top and bottom, and two large chunks out of top and bottom by the spine.

PRICE - $28

DESCRIPTION - The outbreak of the Second World War found the Royal Netherlands Navy apparently in decline. In the worsening situation which preceded 1940, new ships of all kinds had been authorised, but the effort came to later. The majority of the Dutch fleet, including some uncompleted vessels, withdrew undamaged, and proved a most welcome ally to the hard-pressed British forces. The build of the Royal Netherlands Navy was stationed in the East, where the Dutch colonial interests lay. In the face of Japanese advance in 1941, what survived of the Dutch East Indies Fleet could, again, do nothing but withdraw. But in the long process of Allied recovery the Dutch navy won the highest praise in all quarters.

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