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  Perry Pierik The Red Army stumbles

  Russian campaign 1941

  The start of operation 'Barbarossa' was the beginning of one of the most dramatic campaigns in World History. Two titans clashed. The summer of 1941 was catastrophic to the Red Army. However, they were able to keep their position. This blood drenched marvel is what this book is about, which shows that heroism and terror go hand in hand when it comes to stopping German attackers at the gates of Moscow. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 136 pagina's (PDF) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

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  C.E.H.J. Verhoef The battle for Ginkel heath near Ede

  17 and 18 September 1944

  The heroic and valiant actions by the British and Polish airborne troops at the Arnhem road bridge and in the Oosterbeck perimeter, which latter acted as bridgehead round the headquarters of the 1st British Airborne Division at Hotel Hartenstein, are well known. Less well known is what happened during the first days of Operation Market Garden at Ginkel Heath, east of Ede, where nearly two thousand British parachutists landed on 18 September 1944. To keep the memory of these momentous events on the...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 124 pagina's (PDF, 24 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2019

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  Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant

  a novel

  This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...

  Fictie

  Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018

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