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Ten oorlog
0€ 34,95In ‘Ten oorlog: Tussen Waterloo en Verdun’ staat de geschiedenis van oorlog centraal, vanaf het ontstaan van de eerste moderne natiestaten na de Franse Revolutie tot en met de loopgravenoorlog van 1918. Wie de bijdragen van de verschillende auteurs leest, begrijpt dat de oorlog in zijn steeds modernere vorm een prima opmaat was voor de destructieve tweede helft van de 20e eeuw.
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The Battle for Ginkel Heath near Ede
0€ 14,98The heroic and valiant actions by the British and Polish airborne troops at the Arnhem road bridge and in the Oosterbeck perimeter, which latter acted as bridgehead round the headquarters of the 1st British Airborne Division at Hotel Hartenstein, are well known. Less well known is what happened during the first days of Operation Market Garden at Ginkel Heath, east of Ede, where nearly two thousand British parachutists landed on 18 September 1944.
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The battle for The Hague 1940
0€ 25,95The Battle for The Hague-1940 is the story of the first great airborne operation in history. The plan conceived by Adolf Hitler to capture The Hague by suprise, was carried out as part of the Blitzkrieg offensive in Western Europen in may 1940. It became a dismal failure. It also became the only defeat of importance the Germans suffered during their campaign.
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The Chinese Revolution and the Theses of Comrade Stalin
0€ 16,95The Chinese revolution of 1925-27 remains the greatest event of modern history after the 1917 revolution in Russia. Over the problems of the Chinese revolution the basic currents of Communism come to clash. The present official leader of the Comintern, Stalin, has revealed his true stature in the events of the Chinese revolution. The basic documents pertaining to the Chinese revolution are dispersed, scattered, forgotten. Some are carefully concealed.
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The Demise of a Division German Infantry Success During the Ardennes Offensive 1944
0€ 19,95The focus on the 1944 Ardennes offensive is always on the initial dash of Kampfgruppe Peiper and the battles around Bastogne. The tanks steal the show. Most German forces involved were however infantry divisions with little means of transport. They are often regarded as the weak link: the footsloggers who could not catch up with the tanks.
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The Formidable “Arpad Line” of Hungary, 1944
0€ 19,95Historical guiding principles: Leopold von Ranke’s advice, chronicle the past “as it really happened,” is faithfully followed in this rare English language historical treatment of the formidable Árpád Line. The author is mindful of Baruch Spinoza’s plea, “ridicule not, bewail not, nor scorn human actions, but understand them.” Rationality pleads for heeding Albert Einstein’s observation: “Morality is of the highest importance… for our very existence depends on it.”
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The Geopolitics of the Third Reich
0€ 29,95Besides the persecution and annihilation of the Jewish community, the quest for Lebensraum was a pillar of the Nazi’s ideology. The march east, operation ‘Barbarossa’ (1941), was essentially the final part of the geopolitics of the Third Reich. Historian Pierik takes readers into the world of ideas behind these politics, where cold blooded, rational elements go hand in hand with myths and radical beliefs.
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The Last Jewish wedding
0€ 22,95They get married at the Utrecht synagogue two weeks after meeting for the first time. The bride’s earlier fiancé has taken his life during the first week of the occupation. With many other Jewish Dutchmen the groom’s parents have already been arrested, before being transported to extermination camps. More than a hundred friends and family, many with a yellow Star of David, attend the reception. The cou-ple escape twice from the Dutch Theatre where the Germans hold Jews in custody pending transport to Westerbork transit camp, to become master forgers while in hiding: Betty and Leendert, the happiest couple on earth, surviving the on-slaught by sheer guts, optimism, mazzel, and with the help of Good Samaritans.
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The Netherlands Military Leadership 1900 – 1945
0€ 29,95His latest book, “The Netherlands Military Leadership 1900 – 1945”, contains the military biographies of the eight hundred and thirty-one Dutch generals and admirals and other senior officers who held high-level command positions in the Netherlands armed forces during the most difficult of times, the period preceding two world wars, and the war years themselves. Also included are chronological listings of those commands and their commanders.
