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Perry Pierik (5)
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2023 (11)
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Soldier Life was in our Blood

2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik e.a. || Aspect Publishers

During the 90’s, two young historians travel to Budapest. How-ever, fate interviens. The car battery dies in Beieren. When the car stops, the two historians find themselves in Bad Reichenhall, the town where Karl Ullrich, one of the most wellknown commanders of the infamous Waffen-SS divisions ‘Totenkopf’ and ‘Wiking’, lives. An unplanned meeting turns into an interview that lasts multiple days, which gives a unique perspective on the life of this officer. He shares his past so open...

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The Arabian society in the middle ages

2022 || Paperback || Edward William Lane || Aspect Publishers

Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and the Arabic-English Lexicon, as well as his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Kurán.

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Schrödinger's cat in other words

2023 || Paperback || Rudolf Beekman || Aspect Publishers

Two brothers go out walking on Easter Sunday and discuss what they know about physics, neuroscience and evolution in the light of their belief in God. Their discussion also revolves around an imaginary dialogue between Charles Darwin and Etty Hillesum.

The latter is a young Jewish woman who held enlightened views about her belief in God. She did not survive the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Charles Darwin lost his belief in God that he had as a child and young adult. He is a watershed figure wh...

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Five Journeys

through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents

2023 || Paperback || Jaapjan Zeeberg || Aspect Publishers

This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union.

At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today’s ‘Lost World’ fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for ...

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What Woman Want versus The gender, transgender and cultural wars of the West

2019 || Paperback || Janice Atkinson || Aspect Publishers

Written by UK MEP Janice Atkinson, she gives an excoriating analysis of the politicians who pass damaging legislation that ordinary people have not sanctioned, were never in party manifestos or even discussed, the latter mainly because they have made discussions on certain subjects a hate crime.

Western governments, the European Union, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and those that gather at DAVOS - the liberal left elite - are making decisions over the voters’ heads, that...

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Medieval Europe

2022 || Paperback || H.W.C Davis || Aspect Publishers

William Stubbs (1825–1901), is one of the leading historians of his generation, pursued his academic research alongside his work as a clergyman. He was elected Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1866 and ap-pointed a bishop in 1884. Stubbs was a major figure in medieval English historiography, with special interests in legal and constitutional history. This work was first published in 1870. It begins with an outline of English constitutional history, which he urged should be pa...

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With the British in Italy

2023 || Paperback || Warner Allen || Aspect Publishers

In Our Italian Front, author Warner Allen de-scribes the horrors of Italy in the First World War. The Italian trenches were among the worst of the great war. Together with illus-trator Martin Hardie, the daily experiences of the British Expeditionary Force are written with an eye for detail. This book is an impressive document of time. The first edition of this book appeared in 1920.

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The unofficial war between russia and japan in 1939

2023 || Paperback || William C. Jandrew || Aspect Publishers

At the edge of the world, The First Turn of the Wheel…

The Battle of Khalkin Gol (also called Nomonhan), sent shockwaves through world history. It was a testbed for future Soviet doctrine and a catalyst for the Japanese political upheaval that brought the United States into every theater of World War II.

A rebuilding Russian army (still reeling from Stalin’s purges) and its combined-arms doctrine faced off against Japan’s modern bushido; the Soviet tactics used successfully here would p...

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The intrepid Election Observer

Each Mission is an Adventure

2023 || Paperback || Jos Tesselaar || Aspect Publishers

Democracy does not solve all the problems in the world, but democracy is always better than dictatorship. To promote cred-ible elections, the EU, OSCE, Carter Centre, AU, OAS and many other organizations field international election observers. These observers are a special kind of people. They go where nobody else goes. To the local people in far-off provinces they are a shining light. To (semi)dictators it means that there are limits as to what they can get away with. In this book, journalis...

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Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS

2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers

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....