Battle is the severest test a man can be called upon to undergo; it can bring out the best in a man – and the worst...

The author of this book, Victor Miller, joined the Queen's Royal Regiment, at Guildford, upon the outbreak of the Second World War. He volunteered for the elite Glider Pilot Regiment upon its formation and passed, with above average marks, the RAF pilot training programme.

From here, he was to take part in three of the most iconic airborne operations of the entire conflict....

At the end of WWI, millions of military and civilians were displaced across Europe, the South Caucasus, and the Eastern Mediterranean. While many made their way home, genocide, revolution, and post-war instabilities complicated the repatriation of prisoners of war from Russia and the Central Powers and pushed Russian and Armenian refugees into exile. In response, an array of international organizations intervene: three of them, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the League of Natio...

Holocaust, erfgoed en herinnering

Archeologen, historici, kunsthistorici en erfgoedspecialisten bestuderen in dit boek de archeologie van Sobibor.

Tussen 2000 en 2017 voerden archeologen meerdere onderzoek-campagnes uit op het terrein van het voormalig vernietigingskamp Sobibor. De directe aanleiding voor dit onderzoek waren de plannen voor de bouw van een nieuw museum en de herinrichting van het terrein als herinneringsplek. Sobibor geldt als het eerste vernietigingskamp waarvan een substant...

In the rolling hills of Limburg, near Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: the thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David. They mark the final resting place of nearly 8,300 American soldiers who died during World War II. While the headstones provide us with the names of the mostly young men involved in the liberation of the Netherlands, they do not tell us who the soldiers were and who they left behind. Moreover, the peace and quiet at the only American war cemetery in the...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has won public adoration for his ability to motivate not only Ukrainians but people around the world. He might be the best version of a 21st-century political leader we’ve seen.

In many ways, Zelenskyy is the most unlikely of heroes. He grew up as a Russian-speaking Ukrainian Jew in the southeastern part of the country. He earned a law degree and pursued a career in standup comedy and acting. Then, quite incredibly, he starred in the comedy series The Servant of the Peop...

I could tell the story - life and survival - 1940/49 (a time document - original title “Ik kon het navertellen”) The true story of Major 'Jan Hanssen' takes place in the period 1940-1949 before and during the Second World War in Asia (Dutch East Indies, Burma and Siam ). Major 'Hanssen', as a Dutch K.N.I.L. officer, documents his experiences as commander of an internment camp; being interned himself at the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe; the Japanese occupation of the Dutch E...

On the last page of the Christmas 1944 edition of The Clarion prisoners of war at Stalag VIIIB (344) Lamsdorf were invited to take part in a competition to design the cover of the Spring 1945 edition, entries to be submitted by 31st March 1945.

On 22nd January 1945 the German guards began evacuating the camp, and indeed most of their POW camps westwards, away from the rapidly advancing Soviet army. Thus began the terrible Long March in extreme winter conditions, that the POWs had to endure w...

The first comprehensive review of the formation and operations of Britain's Airborne Forces in WWII.

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was created ‘to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’. Seven decades later, the largest military alliance ever created still exists. Yet we live in a different world with immense security challenges. Are we ready for this?

Is NATO ‘brain-dead’, as French President Emmanuel Macron has it said?

Or does it just have a new future ahead of it?

In this book, Theo Francken, Hendrik Bogaert and Peter Buy...