LEADER 01518cam a2200241Ia 4500001 11080 005 20080813135312.0 008 800122s1940 nyu 000 1 eng d 010 40034231 019 29520411374663 035 ocm02197976 035 USHOM 20629 040 DLC |cFHM |dFHM |dOCL |dLHM 090 PS3543.A58 |bI5 1940 100 1 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, |d1882-1944. 245 10 Invasion : |bbeing the personal recollections of what happened to our own family and to some of our friends during the first forty-eight hours of that terrible incident in our history which is now known as the Great Invasion and how we escaped with our lives and the strange adventures which befell us before the Nazis were driven from our territories / |cwritten down at the time and now for the first time presented to the public at large, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 260 New York : |bHarcourt, Brace, |cc1940. 300 203 p. ; |c21 cm. 500 Illustrated lining-papers. 500 "The facts in this book are fictitious, in the sense that nothing recorded here actually happened in any of the places mentioned. But in a much more vital sense, the facts in this book are not fictitious. They are the revaluation against an American background of what happened in those neutral European countries which were suddenly attacked and overrun by the Nazis."--Postscript. 650 0 Imaginary wars and battles. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vFiction. 852 0 |bstacks |hPS3543.A58 I5 1940