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....

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...

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.

Op 22 februari 1944 bombardeerden Amerikaanse vliegtuigen de stad Nijmegen. Het werd een van de grootste rampen die Nederland in de twintigste eeuw zou treffen. Bijna 800 doden, duizenden gewonden en een kwart van het centrum van de kaart geveegd. Over de reden van dit bombardement is lang en veel gespeculeerd. Een Amerikaanse commandant beweerde dat hij Nijmegen aanzag voor Goch. Maar was dat wel zo? Wat was de ware toedracht?

Zeven maanden later startte operatie Market Garden en werd Nijmege...

Hitler and the Nazis were defeated in 1945. Barely three years later, the world witnessed the birth of the State of Israel. The author of this book (who is an expert on the Third Reich) addresses the question of whether Hitler's actions accelerated the creation of a country of their own for the Jews. At one point during his reign, Hitler even concluded an agreement with the Zionists with the aim of encouraging Jews to emigrate to Palestine. Not only this fact is surprising, but also the fact ...

The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946-48, WWII and the beginning of the end of the European empires in Asia and the impact the settlement has had on post-war China and Japan, the wider history of East and South Asia and of the world to this day.

LAMSDORF

In Their Own Words

Experiences related by prisoners of war at

Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf

and its working parties

during the Second World War.

In truth the whole picture is really like a vast jigsaw, and each of the many thousands of pieces is an individual, and each of these individuals has a story; and each of these stories is complicated, fascinating, perhaps distressing in parts, and many of the stories demonstrate the strength and goodness of human nature that can emerge in severe...