Moed En Deugd:Ridderorden in Nederland Van € 149,-Voor € 104,30
J. A. van Zelm van Eldik

Dit naslagwerk in 2 banden in een cassette biedt een overzicht van de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse ridderorden vanaf de middeleeuwen tot heden; de schrijver is secretaris is geweest van de Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden. De meest bekende orden zijn die na 1815 zijn ingesteld, zoals de Orden van de Nederlandse Leeuw en van Oranje-Nassau. Aan deze studie is uitgebreid archiefonderzoek voorafgegaan. De opzet is min of meer chronologisch, met de nadruk op de periode na 1815, toen o.m. de Militaire Willems-Orde werd ingesteld. Daarnaast komen ook Luxemburgse ridderorden uit de periode 1841-1890 voor het voetlicht. Er is veel aandacht voor de instelling van de orden en de wettelijke basis evenals de wijze van toekenning ervan; verder onderwerpen als ontriddering en zuivering van de ridderorden, met name na de Tweede Wereldoorlog evenals de versierselen en hun makers. Van deze eretekens zijn vele afbeeldingen in kleur opgenomen.

Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.
Germanyas forces achieved, in just a few years, the astounding domination of a landmass and population larger than that of the United States. Control of this vast territory was meant to provide the basis for Germanyas rise to unquestioned world power. Eastern Europe was to be the Reichas Wild West, transformed by massacre and colonial settlement. Western Europe was to provide the economic resources that would knit an authoritarian and racially cleansed continent together. But the brutality and short-sightedness of Nazi politics lost what German arms had won and brought their equally rapid downfall.

Time and again, the speed of the Germansa victories caught them unprepared for the economic or psychological intricacies of running such a far-flung dominion. Politically impoverished, they had no idea how to rule the millions of people they suddenly controlled, except by bludgeon.

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 Ian Kershaw - €
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In a mere nineteen months, from May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that decided the course and outcome of World War II, cost the lives of millions, and profoundly shaped the course of human destiny from that point forward. How were these decisions made? What were the options facing these leaders as they saw them? What intelligence, right and wrong, did they have? What was the impact of personality, what that of larger forces? In a brilliant work with haunting contemporary relevance, Ian Kershaw tells the connected stories of these ten fateful decisions from the shifting perspectives of the protagonists, and in so doing rescues them from the sense of inevitability that now envelops them and restores to them a feeling of vivid drama and contingency-the feeling that things could have turned out very differently indeed. Each chapter follows the process of arriving at one decision, from the viewpoint of the leader who made it.
The clash of personalities, the various weaknesses of the different political systems, the challenge of intelligence, the misdiagnosis of risk and possibility: all play their part. And after nineteen months, though much remained to be decided, the world's fate had been profoundly altered by these ten choices.

Getuigen van de Holocaust set / druk 1 Van € 40,00 Voor € 28,00
bevat: nooit meer naar huis; Gevecht om te overleven; Wie was Jack Spijer; Vlucht naar de vrijheid
Kohnstam, P.

De vernietiging van de Europese Joden 1939-1945 Van € 69,50 Voor € 48,65

Professor Raul Hilberg heeft zijn hele werkzame leven gewijd aan wetenschappelijk Holocaustonderzoek. Zijn magnum opus, De vernietiging van de Europese Joden, verscheen voor het eerst in 1962. Tot aan zijn dood in augustus 2007 heeft Hilberg zijn monumentale studie bijgewerkt en uitgebreid. De Nederlandse uitgave is daarmee de meest complete versie van zijn onvolprezen werk. De vernietiging van de Europese Joden is geen boek over de slachtoffers, maar een studie van de daders. Hilberg concentreerde zich op de Duitse politieke en de administratieve systemen. Het lijden van de Joden speelde in zijn werk geen grote rol. In ruim 45 jaar is Raul Hilberg uitgegroeid van grondlegger en pionier van het onderzoek naar de Jodenvervolging tot hoogste autoriteit op het gebied van onderzoek naar de Shoah. Raul Hilberg ontving op 22 januari 2004 in Amsterdam van het Nederlands Auschwitz Comit de Annetje Fels-Kuperschmidtonderscheiding.

The Few, the American “Knights of the Air” who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain, Alex Kershaw
Van € 22,50 Voor € 6,90

By the summer of 1940 World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was triumphant and planning an invasion of England. But the United States was still a neutral country and, as Winston Churchill later observed, "the British people held the fort alone." A few Americans, however, did not remain neutral. They joined Britain's Royal Air Force to fight Hitler's air aces and help save Britain in its darkest hour. The Few is the never-before-told story of these thrill-seeking Americans who defied their country's neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with England's finest pilots. They flew the lethal and elegant Spitfire, and became "knights of the air." With minimal training and plenty of guts they dueled the skilled pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe in the blue skies over England. They shot down several of Germany's fearsome aces, and were feted as national heroes in Britain. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. At war's end, just one of the "Few" would be alive. The others died flying, wearing the RAF's dark blue uniform-each with a shoulder patch depicting an American eagle. As Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

War Summit The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World,
David Stone Van € 19,95 Voor € 6,90

Most of World War II's key events have been exhaustively documented and analyzed during the past sixty years, together with virtually every aspect of the lives and actions of the political leaders, the generals, and the millions of military and civilian personnel involved. However, the vital process that provided the political and strategic framework to enable them to direct the war - the Allied war summits - has not been considered in recent times.

Comprehensive and authoritative, War Summits charts the problems and the compromises, the discussions and the negotiations, the successes and the failures of the U.S., British, and Soviet allies from 1941 to 1945. David Stone highlights the sometimes less than altruistic national agendas, the well-founded doubts and uncertainties, and the recurring suspicions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and their advisers. And Stone relates the strategic planning process directly to its impact upon events on the battlefield and, finally, to the way in which the whole post-1945 world - including the United Nations, the nuclear dimension, and the impending Cold War - was directly shaped by the war summits' process.

American Soldiers, Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea & Vietnam,
Peter S. Kindvatter Van € 32,50 Voor € 8,90

Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracing or being demoralized by war, these men risked their lives for causes larger than themselves with no promise of safe return.
This book is the first to synthesize the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies, and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training, or weaponry.
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By capturing the core “band of brothers” experience across several generations of warfare, Kindsvatter celebrates the American soldier while helping us to better understand war’s lethal reality—and why soldiers persevere in the face of its horrors.

Vreemde overheersing, Bezetten en bezetting in sociologisch perspectief, C.J. Lammers Van €25,95 Voor €6,90

Hoe organiseert een bezetter een bezetting? Vreemde overheersing behelst een sociologisch getinte uitwerking van de gedachte dat een vreemde overheerser het eigenlijk niet kan stellen zonder medewerking van 'inheemse elites', leidinggevenden van het bezette gebied.
Van hun kant proberen die topfiguren door dit soort 'collaboratie' de belangen van de onderworpen bevolking te behartigen. Onder welke omstandigheden lukt dat, en voor hoe lang? Welke machtsmiddelen kan een bezetter gebruiken, en met welke uitwerking?
Dit soort vragen wordt behandeld in analyses van vooral de Duitse bezetting van Nederland en andere Europese landen tijdens woII, van de Japanse bezetting van Indië, en van collaboratie en verzet in Duitse en Japanse interneringskampen. Verder wordt uitvoerig stilgestaan bij Nederlandse bezettingen: van de Generaliteitslanden in de zeventiende eeuw, van grote delen van België in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw, van onze koloniën, en in de huidige tijd in de vorm van participatie in 'heilzame bezettingen' á la Kosovo en Irak. Ten slotte komen internationale verschillen in 'bezettingsstijl' tussen Frankrijk, Groot-Brittannië, Nederland en de Verenigde Staten aan de orde.

Fatal Victories, William Weir Van € 13,50 Voor € 5,90

William Weir’s FATAL VICTORIES, about the most tragic military triumphs in history, from Attila the Hun’s invasion of Gaul, to Bunker Hill, to the Fourth Crusade, to Pearl Harbor, to Claiborne Hancock

Wellington The Iron Duke, Philip Haythornthwaite, Van € 12,50 – € 4,00, geb. Van € 17,50 Voor € 6,90

One of the Duke of Wellington's officers once remarked, "We would rather see his long nose in the sight than a reinforcement of ten thousand men." Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), was one of the greatest military commanders in history and is best known as the successful opponent at Waterloo of arguably the leading general of all time, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Upon his death, [Wellington] was widely regarded as the greatest Briton of his generation and undisputedly one of the greatest British soldiers.

Eisenhower Soldier-Statesman of the American Century, Douglas Kinnard Van € 12,50 Voor € 5,00

Dwight David Eisenhower proudly claimed that he “came from the very heart of America.” Yet it could be argued that, despite those provincial beginnings, no other American exerted more influence on world history during the twentieth century. From his humble birth in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower rose to the supreme command of the Allied armies that helped destroy Adolf Hitler’s Nazi war machine and to the presidency of the United States. Douglas Kinnard’s profile of this great soldier-statesman describes his rise through the ranks of the peacetime army of the 1920s and 1930s the recognition of his abilities by such leaders as Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall, his “great crusade” in Europe during World War II, and his two terms in the Oval Office. Kinnard’s penetrating look at this great military leader and commander in chief serves as an introduction to Eisenhower’s life and provides a concise account of the momentous military and political events of the first half of the twentieth century.

Haig, The Evolution of a Commander, Andrew A. Wiest Van € 11,50 Voor € 4,00

Having achieved a measure of fame in Britain’s colonial wars, Haig began the First World War as a corps commander and succeeded to command the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1915. Under his leadership, the BEF fought its two signature battles of the Great War—at the Somme and Passchendaele. Haig’s role in the direction of these battles earned him a reputation as a “butcher and bungler,” the slaughter of the Somme and the muddy hell of Passchendaele forever tarnishing his reputation. However, as Andrew Wiest points out, in 1918 Haig was instrumental in winning one of the greatest victories in British military history. While the 100 Days Battles often go unnoticed or unappreciated in the history of World War I, obscured by the failures of earlier campaigns, it was here that modern war came of age. Haig’s role in that transformation makes him the central figure of the war on the Western Front.

Montgomery, D-Day Commander, Nigel Hamilton, Van € 12,95 Voor € 5,00

This fascinating study of military leadership follows British general Bernard Law Montgomery’s military career from his cadet days and service in World War I to his great victories of World War II, including his defeat of the great German panzer commander, Erwin Rommel, at Alamein.

Foch, Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War, Michael S. Neiberg Van € 12,50 Voor € 5,-

Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, Foch came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed the nature of warfare. He is most famous for his role as Allied commander in chief in 1918. In this position, unparalleled in the history of warfare, Foch welded together the disparate war efforts of France, Great Britain, the United States, Italy, and Belgium. Now fighting as a more coherent whole, the Allies repulsed the German spring offensives of 1918 and returned to the attack themselves in the summer. In this role, Foch foreshadowed the similar roles played by other commanders of large coalitions, such as Dwight Eisenhower in World War II and Norman Schwarzkopf in Desert Storm.