Maas, Loe, pseudonym of Leonardus Gerardus Marie Snackers.

Het Gewijde Najaar. [Literally, The Antlered Autumn.]

Heerlen: Winants, 1945. Small 4to (medium-large book). 29 pages.
Heerlen is a city in the southern province of Limburg.
The "c.v." after the publisher's name Winants translates as "incorporated."
Uitgeverij means Publisher.

'Een bundeltje gedichten uit de smartelijke oorlogsjaren, werd uitgegeven in de lentemaand van
het jaar der bevrijding 1945.' - Colophon.

[A collection of poems from the bitter/painful war years, published in the month of spring of the year of the liberation 1945.] - Colophone.


Text in Dutch. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), edges are slightly sunned. #24596.

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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