Grey Goose of Arnhem Author:Leo Heaps The Grey Goose of Arnhem is an amazing story of mass escape in World War II -- one of the most incredible every recorded. The results of the Battle of Arnhem are well known: two thousand out of a force of ten thousand from the First British Airborne were evacuated across the Rhine on 26 September 1944; eight thousand were killed, wou... more »nded or taken prisoner. No military campaign in recent history has excited the imagination of the western world as much as Arnhem did.
In one of the houses on Torenstraat lived three old maids who with motherly affection cared for the Grey Goose, the badly wounded Brigadier John Hackett. Dozens of unforgettable characters, including the author himself, are woven into the fabric of the story which in its moving portrayal of the lost band of paratroopers creates a narrative in keeping with the tradition of the great adventure classics.