Loet Velmans: 2 books
by Loet Velmans
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
From POW to CEO picks up Loet Velmans’s story at the end of World War II, when, as a newly liberated prisoner of war, he returned from the Far East to Europe, and shortly thereafter set out for the United States, newly married and with no immediate job prospects. That changed when he was hired by...
Long Way Back to the River Kwai
Memories of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies-now Indonesia-where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners...