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Soldier Life was in our Blood
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik e.a. || Aspect Publishers
During the 90’s, two young historians travel to Budapest. How-ever, fate interviens. The car battery dies in Beieren. When the car stops, the two historians find themselves in Bad Reichenhall, the town where Karl Ullrich, one of the most wellknown commanders of the infamous Waffen-SS divisions ‘Totenkopf’ and ‘Wiking’, lives. An unplanned meeting turns into an interview that lasts multiple days, which gives a unique perspective on the life of this officer. He shares his past so open...
Five Journeys
through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents
2023 || Paperback || Jaapjan Zeeberg || Aspect Publishers
This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union.
At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today’s ‘Lost World’ fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for ...
With the British in Italy
2023 || Paperback || Warner Allen || Aspect Publishers
In Our Italian Front, author Warner Allen de-scribes the horrors of Italy in the First World War. The Italian trenches were among the worst of the great war. Together with illus-trator Martin Hardie, the daily experiences of the British Expeditionary Force are written with an eye for detail. This book is an impressive document of time. The first edition of this book appeared in 1920.
The unofficial war between russia and japan in 1939
2023 || Paperback || William C. Jandrew || Aspect Publishers
At the edge of the world, The First Turn of the Wheel…
The Battle of Khalkin Gol (also called Nomonhan), sent shockwaves through world history. It was a testbed for future Soviet doctrine and a catalyst for the Japanese political upheaval that brought the United States into every theater of World War II.
A rebuilding Russian army (still reeling from Stalin’s purges) and its combined-arms doctrine faced off against Japan’s modern bushido; the Soviet tactics used successfully here would p...
Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
At 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. Although Hitler and high command were sceptic about a partnership with ‘Soviet citizens’ in order to defeat Moscow, eveyone did agree that the Islamic peoples of the Caucasus and the Krim were reasonably trustworthy allies. Especially the Turkmen were considered reliable. This led to a large-scale military and political collaboration....
Tipping the Balance
2023 || Paperback || Huberta Hellendoorn || Aspect Publishers
Tipping the Balance was inspired by love for the author’s birth-place, Warnsveld in Gelderland’s De Achterhoek; the seasons, small farmlets with golden fields, the leafy lanes and rivers flowing slowly through the landscape. Jenneken’s life is shattered when she learns that her mother Alida’s knowledge and use of herbal remedies is considered to be witchcraft and that she must undergo a weighing trial in Oude- water. Jenneken fears also for her own safety as she has followed her mothe...
Brothers in Arms
Romania, Nazi Germany and operation 'Barbarossa'
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
Suffering due to the consequences of the border revision of mid-europe, romania, led by marshal antonescu, opted for a pact with nazi germany. it was a deal with the devil. the romanian jews were sacrificed and the romanian army fell at stalingrad. the author sheds a light on the consequences of these fatal events through extensive archive work.
illustrated with special historical images
‘A Dutch historian explains the motivation behind the bloodbath at Odessa’
– Marius Ghilezan in Rom...
Waffen-SS 1939-1945, A ruthless Enemy
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
The Waffen-SS, as fourth ‘army branch’ of the German army, is still surrounded with a certain mystical fog. Some divisions, mostly from the first levies, have general fame, like Hitler’s body guard division, the ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, or the ‘Das Reich’ division. However, the fact that Waffen-SS grew into a significant force - 38 divisions - during the war, is largely unknown. Yet, due to the expansion, the elite status of the Waff-en-SS lessened. Leveled by its large nu...
Erich Ludendorff
Biography
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
There are several biographies about Erich Ludendorff. What most of them have in common is that they stop at the year 1918, the end of the First World War. This is un-justified. At the peak of his long career, between 1915 and roughly 1925, Ludendorff developed into the strongest man on the ‘right’. Thus, the years after the war were also of great importance. He was not only an important general who, with Paul von Hin-denburg, was in supreme command of Germany’s de facto military leaders...