Dutch Treat A Novel of World War II Tapa dura - 1980

London: The Bodley Head. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. (1980). Hardcover. 0370303075 . No signatures. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First UK edition (previously published in the USA in 1979). (271), [1] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 132mm. "It is May 1940. As the German armoured columns forge across Europe, plans are made in London to evacuate Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her family and thus set up a legal Dutch government in exile. The men who are planning the operation are also aware that the movable assets of the Dutch crown - a huge fortune in diamonds and title deeds - rest in two steel boxes in a strongroom below the royal palace in Amsterdam." - from dust-jacket blurb. .