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  • Aggression under the Guise of Liberation
    Perry Pierik
    With the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, a secret and extraordinary pact came into effect. Two opposing ideologies, National Socialism and Communism, joined forces to wipe the hated Poland off the map. Even plans for a sub-Poland were eventually dismissed. This co-operation had earlier historical roots, but was also born out of practical necessity. Besides the o...
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    22,46 €

  • With Hitler for Mother Russia
    Perry Pierik
    About 1 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union collaborated with the Nazis. This is a remarkable fact, because the Nazis, thanks to their racial policy, could not really be considered allies. And yet it happened. The aversion to Bolshevism and the hope for new freedom opened up a horizon in which collaboration between the Soviet peoples and the Germans seemed to offer a better...
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    20,44 €

  • The red army stumbles
    Perry Pierik
    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...
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    21,68 €

  • Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS
    Perry Pierik
    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. E...
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    24,41 €

  • The Geopolitics of the Third Reich
    Perry Pierik
    Besides the persecution and annihilation of the Jewish community, the quest for Lebensraum was a pillar of the Nazi’s ideology. The march east, operation ’Barbarossa’ (1941), was essentially the final part of the geopolitics of the Third Reich. Historian Pierik takes readers into the world of ideas behind these politics, where cold blooded, rational elements go hand in hand wit...
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    32,93 €

  • A year drenched in blood
    Perry Pierik
    Hitler talked about his ’Fortress Europa’, but it was a rampart ’without a roof.’ Above all the western allied air eet relentless bombed Nazi-Germany. After the failed battle at Kurks in 1943, the allied landings in Normandy and the collapse of army group ’Mitte’ in 1944, it was clear that Hitler lost the war on military and production technical district. Nevertheless the Germa...
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    21,77 €

  • Horthy and the battle for the Hungarian nation state
    Perry Pierik
    Hungary rose as a nation state after the First World War, from the ashes of the Dual Monarchy. State regent and admiral without a fleet, Miklós Horthy, played a crucial role herein. The path to independence was far from simple for the Hungarians. Shortly after the First World War the communists staged a coup and the Entente Powers, and in particular the Pan-Europeans amongst th...
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    24,25 €

  • Stalingrad
    Perry Pierik / Peter Steeman
    It has been seventy yeas since the battle of Stalingrad ended. The city at the river Wolga drew German troops to it like a magnat. Hitler had officially declared the city as ’fallen’, but then the Red Army encircled the German 6th Army. What followed was a major human tragedy. Honderds of thousands were trapped in the city. Food and ammunition were scarce and an attempt to brea...
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    29,57 €

  • Erich Ludendorff
    Perry Pierik
    There are several biographies about Erich Ludendorff. What most of them have in common is that they stop at the year 1918, the end of the First World War. This is unjustified. At the peak of his long career, between 1915 and roughly 1925, Ludendorff developed into the strongest man on the ’right’. Thus, the years after the war were also of great importance. He was not only an i...
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    46,86 €

  • Waffen-SS 1939-1945, A ruthless Enemy
    Perry Pierik
    The Waffen-SS, as fourth ’army branch’ of the German army, is still surrounded with a certain mystical fog. Some divisions, mostly from the first levies, have general fame, like Hitler’s body guard division, the ’Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, or the ’Das Reich’ division. However, the fact that Waffen-SS grew into a significant force - 38 divisions - during the war, is largely un...
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    27,85 €

  • The Soldier Life was in our Blood
    Marcel Reijmerick / Perry Pierik
    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 la...
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    24,54 €

  • Brothers in Arms
    Perry Pierik
    Suffering due to the consequences of the border revision of mid-europe, romania, led by marshal antonescu, opted for a pact with nazi germany. it was a deal with the devil. the romanian jews were sacrificed and the romanian army fell at stalingrad. the author sheds a light on theconsequences of these fatal events through extensive archive work. Illustrated with special historic...
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    36,77 €