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Airborne to Arnhem Volume 3
Personal reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th-26th September 1944
2024 || Hardcover || Grant R. Newell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 3 is the final volume of reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th- 26th September 1944 published by Helion and Company. The three volumes contain over 150 personal accounts received from veterans of the 1st Airborne Division alongside those from RAF aircrew and XXX Corps.
The study is the culmination of over forty years of research concentrating on the British 1st Airborne Division's role in the capture of the north end of the Arnhem bridge and t...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
2024 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS
Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plo...
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Putin and the Return of History
How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
2024 || Paperback || Martin Sixsmith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst of Western triumphalism proclaimed a US-led unipolar world entitled to 'impose democracy' on countries that failed to recognise the new order. Politicians foretold the universalisation of Western values as the final, enduring form of human society...
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The Holocaust
An Unfinished History
2024 || Paperback || Dan Stone || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times
'Erudite...remarkable' The Observer
'Outstanding' The Telegraph
An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are majo...