Thank you for visiting www.inpursuitoflife.com, the exciting NEW autobiography by Erik Hazelhoff.  One of Mr. Hazelhoff's previous books, Soldier of Orange sold over one million (!) copies) It also became a movie 'Soldier of Orange' which received a Hollywood award as best foreign film.

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ERIK HAZELHOFF

"IN PURSUIT OF LIFE"       

Celebrating May 5th, 2005, Holland is Liberated!

It is almost 60 years ago since the Second World War (WWII) ended in Europe.

Millions of courageous people gave their lives to liberate us and only some returned as hero's.  We should never forget 9/11/2001 at the same time we should never forget the dark period between 1939-1945 when over 40 million people lost their lives. It is therefore important to 'pass on' the experiences of the past.

Erik Hazelhoff's 396 page hardcover book In Pursuit of Life ($ 24.95) talks about his very unusual life.

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Mini biography

Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema is the son of Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and Cornelia Vreede. Born in Java while it was still a Dutch colony. During the 1930s he hitch-hiked across the United States and wrote his first book "Rendezvous in San Francisco" which became a non-fiction best-seller in the Netherlands. A student of law at Leiden University, when WW11 broke out he escaped from Holland and participated in secret landings along the Dutch coast. He later joined the RAF as a Pathfinder Mosquito pilot, and ended the war by returning to the Netherlands as an aide to the then-reigning Queen, Wilhelmina, who knighted him for his services with Hollands' highest decoration. This later became the basis for his autobiographical book 'Soldaat van Oranje' which was published in Holland in 1970 by the Forum Boekerij. He emigrated to the United States and in 1951 started working for NBC Television on the 'Today Show', later on 'Tonight' and 'Home'. He became Director of Radio Free Europe in Munich. In 1960 he started Intertel, multi-national television company with mobile units, in Spain, Germany and the UK. Since 1968 he has devoted his time to writing books. The first version of 'Soldaat van Oranje was titled 'Het Hol van de Ratelslang'. Apart from several books, he wrote a weekly column 'De Verre Tamboer' for De Telegraaf, Hollands' largest newspaper. He now lives in Hawaii with his wife, Karin.  

FOREWORD "IN PURSUIT OF LIFE" by Len Deighton author, 'The Ipcress File'

This is an infuriating book.  How can one man have lived a hundred lives?  A hundred lives!  And not dull – get up in the morning and brew coffee – lives, like mine.  These are amazing lives: comic, heroic, epic, tragic and sometimes futile.  Here is his story and, by happy coincidence, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was born with a fierce and fluent talent for writing.

Nothing stops him, whether it’s a ticking bureaucrat or a ticking time-bomb, Erik the amateur pilot flying countless missions over wartime Germany or the short-sighted applicant surviving countless physical examinations in order to join the RAF’s most elite Pathfinder Force.  Equally gripping is Erik’s postwar encounter with an American employment agency, and his misadventures in the jungles of Hollywood.  But he always emerges apparently unscathed; like a plastic duck plunging over Niagara Falls he surfaces and darts away to new waters.

Erik’s life story, which covers the twentieth century both in timespan and much of its turbulent content, provides many truthful insights.  They contradict the glossy and simplistic history of these times that books and television present.  But his writing talent feeds most voraciously upon his love for flying aircraft.  He glosses over his courage which took him back to occupied Holland as a secret agent again and again, but for me it is his many adventures in the air that are most vivid and memorable.  His descriptions of flying a de Havilland Mosquito over snowy Northern Europe or a tiny Republic Seabee over tropical jungle, are graphic and poetic. 

And it’s always “we”.  For even when flying solo Erik includes his plane. But I won’t go on and on; here is Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema’s life story. Or one hundred of them to be precise.                                                                  Len Deighton author, 'The Ipcress File'

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Over One Million Copies sold of previous autobiographical book!

Erik Hazelhoff is a bilingual author who has been widely published in English and in Dutch. "Soldier of Orange" ("Soldaat van Oranje") his first autobiographical work, passed the one million copies sales mark in Holland in 1994 in 46 editions. The film of the book received an Oscar nomination for the best foreign film of 1979 and the Los Angeles Film Critics' Award. Erik now lives in Hawaii where he has written several books.

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