ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “The Netherlands Military Leadership 1900 - 1945”, contains the military biographies of the eight hundred and thirty-one Dutch generals and admirals and other senior officers who held high-level command positions in the Netherlands armed forces during the most difficult of times, the period preceding two world wars, and the war yea...