Reviews
"FLY PAST", Britain's Top-Selling Aviation Monthly. December 2004.
"Employing production values that would put many 'full-time' publishers to shame, Arie has produced a labour of love.
His first book was the quite exceptional "Tugs and Gliders to Arnhem" in 2000 and readers may remember the news feature we carried recently on his discovery of a substantial piece of a Short Stirling fuselage in the Netherlands, having been used as a shed for 59 years.
The sub-title says it all: "A detailed survey of the British parachute re-supply sorties during Operation 'Market Garden', September 18-25, 1944.
A brilliant piece of work".
"THE EAGLE", the Magazine of the Glider Pilot Regimental Association. April 2005.
Those who read Arie-Jan van Hees's book "Tugs and Gliders to Arnhem" will find "Green On!" another beautifully produced and quite extraordinarily well researched book on a subject not attempted by any other author as a tour de force such as this work is. It measures 12" x 8 1/4", has 379 pages, 600 photos, diagrams etc. and a 16 page index, containing 1,300 names.
This is a book which is required by any reader of the battle of Arnhem. RAF tug and re-supply pilots as well as glider pilots will find new and fascinating information on themselves and their planes.
There are airfield maps, routes and targets of re-supply and the author has discovered a huge collection of unpublished photos of Arnhem and Oosterbeek during and immediately after the battle, as well as innumerable wreckage, and forced landings of aircraft, particularly Stirlings, Dakotas and the fighter planes involved on both sides.
8,900 containers were loaded with Stirlings, 628 sorties were completed, with 89 aircraft failing to return and a detailed list of all 232 aircrews and air despatchers, who were killed in their attempt to relieve by supply the men of Arnhem.
"MODEL
AIRCRAFT MONTHLY", the Complete Aircraft Reference Magazine. March
2005.
Originally published in the summer of 2004, (for the 60th anniversary celebrations), we have just received this review copy direct from the author/publisher, Arie-Jan van Hees, and what a superb book it is!
Very much in the vein of the 'After the Battle' series of books, this hard-back, 380pp tome, covers the Arnhem resupply missions of 'Operation Market Garden' in meticulous detail. Illustrated with hundreds of photos - all of which appear to be from private collections - the events from 17 up to 25 September 1944 are covered day-by-day with every aspect of the resupply operation catalogued, from initial planning, loading, delivery and despatch, associated Allied fighter and bomber support, flak sites and enemy reactions, everything is there!
Personal stories and anecdotes abound amongst the main historical/reference narrative, admirably backed-up with ten appendices - including aircraft movements, (listing serial numbers and codes), and escape and evasion stories of shot-down Allied aircrew - plus a separate, loose-leaf, 16 pp index.
Everything you could possibly want to know about the 'air aspect' of Operation Market Garden is packed between the covers of this superbly researched and presented reference - which can be regarded as the 'bible' for the foreseeable future. Unreservedly recommended.
ARNHEM VETERANS CLUB NEWSLETTER. June 2005.
This beautifully produced book supplements the excellent "Tugs and Gliders to Arnhem", by the same author, which received wide acclaim.
It is readable, excellent and authentic; it must not be missed by any student of the Market-Garden operation and will bring back many memories of those who took part in, or observed from the ground, the heroic efforts of the aircrews and despatchers to supply the troops in action below.