Contents

Cover

Maps

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Navigator Ellis B. Scripture’s Prayer

2: Hitler’s Secret Agent

3: The Suspect Prince in the World of James Bond

4: The Bridge Too Far: The Failure to Liberate Holland

5: The Germans Go on the Offensive

6: Surviving the Hunger Winter

7: An Offer from Nazi Governor Seyss-Inquart

8: President “Dutch” Roosevelt’s Promise

9: “Beetle” Bedell Smith’s Plan

10: Farley Mowat Goes behind German Lines

11: The Achterveld Agreement

12: The First Nervous Test Flight

13: Ike’s Hatchet Man Tells the Nazi Governor Straight

14: The US 8th Air Force Prepares for Chowhound

15: May 1, 1945: B-17s over Holland at 400 Feet

16: Germans Open Fire on Chowhound Bombers

17: Audrey Hepburn’s Birthday Present: The Liberation of Holland

18: Grif Mumford’s Special Air Delivery to a Dutch Sister

19: Bombardier Braidic’s Fateful Decision

20: The End: For Seyss-Inquart and the War

21: The Aftermath

22: The Best Thing We Ever Did in the War

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Photographs

About the Author

Copyright