Borre Winckel
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Borre Winckel

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Borre Winckel was born in The Hague, the seat of the Dutch Government. He grew up within a stone's throw from the Atlantic Wall, Germany's coastal fortification to prevent the Allied Invasion. As a child, talk of WW2 was everywhere, at home and on the street. What people did, or not do, how they lived under the occupation, who fought or who collaborated was daily fair. Winckel's mother barely survived the Hunger Winter. His father made it to England to join the Allied cause.

Winckel spent his entire adult life in the United States. After graduating from Boston University, he was a speech writer and media spokesperson for The Chase Manhattan, N.A. at its H.Q. in Wall Street. Rockefeller had just retired, and Butcher had taken over the helm at the world’s largest bank. Chase trained and made Winckel a corporate finance lender to America’s behemoth consumer food companies. This was followed by a career in funding some of the largest residential construction projects in New York City and New Jersey.

This was followed by a career as an ardent housing advocate. His blistering commentaries are legendary, demonstrating a keen wit for addressing the non-commonsensical. His book "Take Men on Board!", its original Dutch version and the audiobook took a combined 20 years of painstaking research, countless interviews, and deep dives into the British MI5 and Dutch National WW2 Archives. The result provides critical circumstances unknown to the book’s five main characters. Many of the heroes mentioned in this book were personally known to the author.

Book and Kindle readers and Audible listeners are encouraged to visit the "Take Men on Board" Photo Archive on Facebook for photos, images, illustrations, maps and for story background.
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