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Notes: Colpohon: In de eerste dagen na de bevrijding van Maastricht door het 19e Amerikaansche legercorps onder commando van Generaal-Majoor Charles H. Corlett werd "The song of honorable death' geschreven door Loe Maas. Van dit boekje, dat op 13 October 1944 werd gedrukt ... verschenen drie honderd genummerde exemplaren.
Description: [12] p. ; 17x24 cm.
Responsibility: van Loe Maas.
Maas, Loe, pseudonym of Leonardus Gerardus Marie Snackers. The Song of
Honorable Death: Gedicht. [Poem]
Maastricht & Vroenhoven: Ernest Van Aelst, 1944. Copy
Maastricht is the capital of the southern province of Limburg.
Vroenhovenen (B) is a publisher in the southern province of Brabant (B).
42 of 300 printed. Oblong 8vo. 12 pages.
The dedication reads:
Dedicated to Armand Maassen, who, although taken prisoner of war as a soldier of the Royal Dutch Marines, died in a concentration camp, and in him [dedicated] to citizens of the city of Maastricht who died/perished in the struggle for freedom and justice.
[Begins "Opgedragen aan...]
'In de eerste dagen na de bevrijding van Maastricht door het 19e Amerikaansche legercorps onder commando van
Generaal-Majoor Charles H. Corlett werd 'The Song of honorable Death'
geschreven door Loe Maas. Gedrukt 13 Oktober 1944.' - Colophone.
['The Song of the Honorable Death' was written by Loe Maas during the first days of the liberation of Maastricht [the capital of the
southern province of Limburg] by the 19th American Army Corps under the command of Major-General Charles H. Corlett. Printed
13 October 1944.]
I don't have much additional information on the author or the books. I get the impression that Lou Maas, the poet, was a patriotic Dutchman , like most of us, deeply resentful of the German occupation which started in 1940 and ended in 1944 in the southern provinces, but lasted until May 1945 in the north (due to the failure of the massive airdrops and battled, partially portrayed in "A Bridge Too Far.").
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