At the end of 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, an idea of collaboration with the Islamic peoples of the Soviet Union arose among the Germans. Although Hitler and high command were sceptic about a partnership with ‘Soviet citizens’ in order to defeat Moscow, eveyone did agree that the Islamic peoples of the Caucasus and the Krim were reasonably trustworthy allies. Especially the Turkmen were considered reliable. This led to a large-scale military and political collaboration....

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “Warlords of the German Empire, 1914 - 1918” contains the biographies of ninety senior German generals and admirals, and allied (Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman) officers who held honorary German rank during World War I. Included among these, by virtue of the ranks that they held in the German armed forces, are monarchs and royal princes of various German ...

In this book, reality always trumps fiction, truth always trumps myth. Get ready for a personal encounter with police inspectors and filles à la cuisse légère, Impressionists and art thieves, collaborators and résistants, Cubists and anarchists, artists’ models and terrorists, criminals and executioners.

In fascinating and often unknown stories, such as ‘The Chanel-Wertheimer Case’, ‘Lenin’s Yellow Jersey’ and ‘Selling the Eiffel Tower’, hundreds of Parisian souls are brou...

They get married at the Utrecht synagogue two weeks after meeting for the first time. The bride’s earlier fiancé has taken his life during the first week of the occupation. With many other Jewish Dutchmen the groom’s parents have already been arrested, before being transported to extermination camps. More than a hundred friends and family, many with a yellow Star of David, attend the reception. The cou-ple escape twice from the Dutch Theatre where the Germans hold Jews in custody pending...

Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “La Regia Marina”, tells the story of what could be considered to be the “modern” Italian Navy, covering the period 1900-1946. Included are abbreviated histories of the 404 main vessels (aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines) that made up the Navy during that period, and brief biographies of its 845 flag officers.

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Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “Imperial High Command - Volume II” is a follow-up to his 2020 book on the senior officers who served the British Empire during 1900-1945. Volume II of this work contains the biographies of 690 officers who reached the second-highest rank in the armed forces: full General (Army, Royal Marines), full Admiral (Royal Navy), or Air Chief Marshal (RAF). ...

The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research.

Could we ever see Vladimir Putin in the dock for his crimes? What about a Western ally like Benjamin Netanyahu? Putting a country's leader on trial once seemed unthinkable. But as journalist and human rights advocate Steve Crawshaw describes in Prosecuting the Powerful - a blend of vivid reportage and gripping history - a series of remarkable changes in recent years means that, despite many challenges, both scenarios are now a possibility.

Drawing on his on-the-ground reporting from ...