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Flying Memories
0€ 19,95This is the story of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. At the outbreak of the war the R.F.C. concisted of only four squadrons organised for active service. The squadrons were concentrated at Farnborough under the command of Brigade-General Sir David Henderson. The unites were dispatched to France in 1914. In France they started the War in the Air. S.O.Bradshaw tells their story. Lt. H.D. Harvey Kelly was privileged to be the first R.F.C. pilot to arrive in France and landed in Amiens. He was killed om April 29 th 1917. Flying Memories of Stanley Orton Bradshaw brings back the glory days of the pilots of 1914-1918.
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Forgotten children
0€ 24,95On a cold Monday morning in March 1945, just after the hunger winter, children and their parents gathered on a dock in Waddinxveen. The malnourished children are leaving on a boat to Drenthe, where there still is food. They don’t know how long they will be away or where they are heading. But they trust the minister and they the need for food is high. The children have become refugees of war in their own country.
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Heinrich Himmler
0€ 29,95Heinrich Himmler, one of the most infamous mass murderers of all time, was originially from a conservative and Catholic family in Bavaria. Later he would break away from the church.
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Horthy and the battle for the Hungarian nation state
0€ 19,95Hungary rose as a nation state after the First World War, from the ashes of the Dual Monarchy. State regent and admiral without a fleet, Miklós Horthy, played a crucial role herein. The path to independence was far from simple for the Hungarians. Shortly after the First World War the communists staged a coup and the Entente Powers, and in particular the Pan-Europeans amongst them, tried thereafter to reinstate the Habsburg Empire.
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Hungary 1944-1945
0€ 24,95The book describes Hungary during World War II on the basis of Hitler’s most important political principles, namely the acquisition of ‘Lebensraum’ (Living space) in which raw materials, oil in particular, were vital. Another tragic subject discussed is the destruction of the last remaining Jewish community in Europe.
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Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS
0€ 21,95At the end of 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, an idea of collaboration with the Islamic peoples of the Soviet Union arose among the Germans.
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May 1940 – War over Holland
0€ 24,95The dramatic defence of the Netherlands in May 1940 against the German invasion lasted only five days. It started with a massive German airborne landing in the capital west of the country and ended with a, for those days impressive, German air bombardment of the harbour-city of Rotterdam, devastating the city centre and shocking the Dutch supreme command. When hours later another major Dutch community was threatened with destruction from the air the Dutch supreme command decided to surrender. How was it possible that a flat, water-rich country was seized so quickly by only modest German forces?
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Meet the Fokkens
0€ 14,95The Fokkens are well-known, both in our own country and internationally. In their previous work we got acquainted with ‘the garden gnome’, and learned about other exciting details from their sex room. In this book the ladies leave nothing out, allowing the reader to learn about Holland’s most famous neighborhood: the Red Light District. With their stories they enlighten us about, for instance, the ‘Bon Bon eater’, ‘Pimmetje the Runner’, ‘the Fucker’, and ‘the Turd’.
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Messerschmitt ME 163 ‘Komet’
0€ 18,95The Me163 ‘Komet’ was the world’s first operational rocket plane, a milestone in military aviation history.
This book focuses mainly on the story of 6 American fighter pilots who each had a chance to achieve one victory over the fastest aircraft of the Luftwaffe. -
No Return Flight
0€ 24,95‘No Return Flight” tells the story of the search for the 27 men that glided into the Arnhem area on 18 September 1944. Their Horsa, one among hundreds of plywood gliders, launched them into the cauldron that would be remembered as the Battle of Arnhem.
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Oliver Twist
0€ 29,95Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress, Charles Dickens’s second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the “Artful Dodger”, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
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On That War
0€ 16,95‘The time of the great debates about the origins of the Great War is over,’ German historian Oliver Janz wrote in 2013; but nothing proved less true. German historian Fritz Fischer had already, in the 1960s, caused a ‘controversy’ by attributing to Germany a ‘substantial’ and even a ‘decisive’ share in the outbreak of the war; but his work was only based on German sources. We had to wait till the early 21st century before academic studies appeared about the Russian (in 2011) and the French (in 2015) war aims!
