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WWII History
Star Children
The Holocaust may never be forgotten for its horrible stain on the history of mankind. Pinkhof’s book is about an episode which is unique in itself: a small group of Jews let go fr...
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When Canada Was Home
The Story of Dutch Princess Margriet
What is the story behind all those tulip bulbs Princess Juliana gave to Ottawa? This pictorial book by Albert VanderMey introduces the reader to a very unique, touching story that ...
USD 15.95 / CAD 15.95
A Friend Among Enemies
The Incredible Story of Arie Van Mansum in the Holocaust
When the Nazis who had invaded the Netherlands in 1940, started deporting Dutch Jews eastwards in the Summer of 1942, Arie, realizing these fellow citizens were in danger, began - ...
USD 24.95 / CAD 24.95
Freedom's Clothesline
Dutch citizens during World War II
The author who lived in the southern Dutch province of Limburg tells of her family’s struggles during the war years, interweaving it with stories of friends who gave shelter to bot...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
We Became Canadians
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a significant number of Canadian soldiers returned home to Canada to be followed by their brides, among whom were over a thousand Dutch ...
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Return to the Hiding Place
Eighteen-year old, Dutch-born Hans Poley was the first fugitive from the Nazis to find shelter at the Ten Boom’s residence in Haarlem, in 1943. The following year, Poley together w...
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Things We Couldn't Say
The true story of Berendina (Diet) Eman, a young Dutch woman who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue Jews imperiled by Nazi persecution in occupied Holland ...
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Faith and Victory in Dachau
The author was a very unlikely resistance leader: a gentle preacher. As a minister he was known for his evangelistic zeal. Yet when the ‘school conflict’ with the Nazis erupted, he...
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Kamp Westerbork
Transit Camp to Eternity: the Liberation Story
The liberation of Kamp Westerbork in the history of the South Saskatchewan Regiment of Canada continues to be the event that captures the reason why the regiment served abroad in W...
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When a Neighbor Came Calling
Memories of the occupation of the Netherlands will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. These memories should not fade away either. This book by Albert VanderMey is th...
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The Padre
This is the inspiring story of a remarkable chaplain, who as a “front-line” soldier for nearly three years served with the Irish Regiment of Canada, in England, Italy and the Nethe...
USD 14.95 / CAD 14.95
Dangerous Diplomacy
The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews
Dangerous Diplomacy for the first time relates the courageous story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi co...
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A Theatre in Dachau
This book presents the thoughts of a Reformed Christian minister who lived through the horrid experiences of a German concentration camp during World War II. He shares his struggle...
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Christian Responses to the Holocaust
Moral and Ethical Issues
In a Europe overrun by Hitler’s armies and his Nationalist Socialist ideology, Christians were forced to respond to the atrocities being committed against their fellow citizens. Th...
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Stalin, the Russians, and Their War 1941 - 1945
In Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, the author presents the testimony of Russian participants, eyewitnesses, and historians of World War II to reveal not the heroic Soviet stur...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
Impact
The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II
Hitlers "robot bombs" wreaked havoc on Allied population centres and forced massive counter measures and the diversion of important resources from the battlefront. The authors make...
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The Battle for the Hague - 1940
Dutch Army in 1940 heroically dealt Hitler's paratroopers huge blow.
The story of the first great airborne landing operation in history. The plan conceived by Adolf Hitler to capture The Hague by surprise, was carried out as part of the Blitzkrieg o...
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The Battle for Ginkel Heath near Ede
17 and 18 September 1944
Even now, decades after the actual landing, the Battle of Arnhem – Operation Market Garden - still is seen as a most telling defeat by many people. The fierce and bloody fighting f...
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From Leningrad to Berlin
Dutch volunteers in the service of the German Waffen-SS 1941-1945
When in June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the elite guard division SS appealed to young men in occupied areas to join the crusade against Bolshevism by enlisting in ...
USD 47.95 / CAD 47.95
Canada and Noord-Brabant
An eternal bond
The author describes the battles of the Canadian forces for the liberation of the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant in this well documented and well-illustrated book. The very import...
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Life Lessons From the Hiding Place
Discovering the heart of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch citizen, was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her faith. From her unforgettable experience in a Nazi prison camp during...
USD 12.95 / CAD 12.95
The Hunger Winter
Occupied Holland, 1944-1945
Hitler’s Germany invaded neighbouring the Netherlands in May 1940. Life in occupied Holland was hideous enough, but for the Dutch people the worst was yet to come. After the Wester...
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Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands, May 1945
Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of horror for the Dutch people. They faced oppression and death with remarkable stoicism, ...
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Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture
The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II
Foreword by Colonel J.W. Bradbury In the study of the past, it is sometimes all too easy to forget that history is made not by groups or governments but by ordinary individuals. ...
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The Liberation of Holland DVD
This documentary of The Netherland’s liberation features re-enactment as well as original footage including some rare shots in colour from World War II. This film recognizes the ef...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
The Liberation of Holland VHS
This documentary of Holland’s liberation features re-enactment as well as original footage including some rare shots in colour from World War II. This film recognizes the efforts o...
USD 9.95 / CAD 9.95
Aartsbisschop in oorlogstijd
Een portret van kardinaal De Jong, 1885-1955
The surrender of the Dutch army in May 1940 was not the end of warfare in the occupied country. With the military conquest out of the way, the Nazis increasingly were attempting to...
USD 16.95 / CAD 16.95
In This Hour
A Story of World War II and the Floods of 1953
The book vividly weaves the tapestry of a small Zeeland island village where several characters passionately debate complex issues tied to events of the day, such as the Nazi invas...
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Mona Parsons
From privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe
Even as a young girl growing up in small town Nova Scotia, Mona Parsons stood out for her elegance, self-confidence, and theatrical flair. But the life of this Wolfville native has...
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The Reckoning DVD
A compelling 96-minute documentary
War erupts in Europe as Germany invades Poland. Eight months later, Hitler would pulicly broadcast that he would not invade Holland due to their neutrality during world War I. With...
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Cinderella Army
The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
The author, a military historian, in this book examines the role of Canadian troops in the context of the overall Allied effort to end Hitler’s conquest. The Canadians played a cru...
USD 31.95 / CAD 31.95
A Long Labour
A Dutch Mother’s Holocaust Memoir
In this unusual memoir, the author presents a Jewish mother’s view of life in the Netherlands during the WWII Nazi occupation. The book covers a period that ranges from the author’...
USD 21.95 / CAD 21.95
The Hiding Place
A Dutch watchmaker, Corrie ten Boom became a heroine of the Resistance against the Nazi ideology, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and a remarkable evangelist. In World ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 12.95
Beatrix in Ballingschap
Vijf jaren uit de jeugd van onze koningin 1940-1945
The author details the Canadian years (1940-1945) of Dutch Queen Beatrix, based on interviews with people who remembered the Royal family's stay in Ottawa. Helped by the photograph...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
'Koos' Michel
Mijn verzet in de tweede wereldoorlog
The resistance men of Wierden, in Overijssel, rattled nerves at the German occupation command centre with a well-executed railway derailment in May 1943, nearly three years after t...
USD 22.95 / CAD 22.95
The Scout of Christiaan de Wet
Volume 3
The Boer War continued to ravage the South African provinces of the Orange Free State and Transvaal. The English invaders, emboldened by their troop surges, are relentless in their...
USD 11.95 / CAD 11.95
The Occupied Garden
Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn Netherlands
The authors, two Canadian born sisters, share in this book the powerful story of their grandparents, a Dutch market gardener and his very devout wife, who were living a simple life...
USD 19.95 / CAD 19.95
And No More Sorrow
The World War II Memoirs of Sonja Kiek Rosenstein Cohen
When the British first read about atrocities the Nazis perpetrated against the Jews in occupied Europe in 1943, they initially dismissed the reports as just a crude bit of wartime ...
USD 21.95 / CAD 21.95
Arnhem 1944
Operation Market Garden
The Allied plan 'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial operations of the Second World War - a joint penetration, by an armoured column and a la...
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Een Mythe aan Scherven
Een onderzoek naar de tactische gevechtsomstandigheden van mei 1940 op het Nederlandse strijdtoneel
In his book, the author introduces his readers to the nerve-wracking days of May 1940 when a modern and much better equipped German army invaded the Netherlands with tanks, planes ...
USD 32.95 / CAD 32.95
The Silent Final
Could the twin brothers be considered lucky, being the only concentration camp survivors from the Jewish community in Elburg? And what about the few dozen out of 660 men deported f...
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De Bijzondere Rechtspleging 1944 tot 1952
The author became fascinated with the postwar settling of accounts of the Dutch authorities with those who had supported the Nazis as members of the Dutch National Socialist Party ...
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A Long Way
From the cold, harsh waters of Northern Europe to the tropical islands of the Dutch East Indies, the author in his novel captures the visual and spiritual dynamics of these two wor...
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A Family Occupation
Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. Th...
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New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 8
This installment of the author’s insider history of the U.S. Navy covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, from March through July 1944. Filled with spectacular ...
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A Boy in War
When Jan is seven years of age, the Nazis attack and take over Holland. At first, not much changes. Soon, though, war starts taking things away: important things like neighbours an...
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Tjideng Reunion
When WWII broke out in Europe and the Nazis occupied their homeland, two Dutch families living in South Africa moved to the Netherlands East Indies to contribute to the defense of ...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Available for shipping May 1st. The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sw...
USD 34.95 / CAD 34.95
Terrible Victory
First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
Available for shipping May 1st. On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe’s largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of ...
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The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
Sussie Cretier was only 10 when she met Bob Elliott, a Canadian soldier assigned to help protect her region of the Netherlands from the invading German army. Sussie’s family had en...
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Bittersweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Millions of Chinese have left the mainland over the last two centuries in search of new beginnings. The majority went to Southeast Asian countries. The single largest destination w...
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De gebroken vleugel van de Duitse Adelaar
Inventarisatie van de Duitse verliezen in de luchtoorlog van mei 1940 boven Nederland
A military historian and lecturer, the author details, catalogues in his book Germany’s huge air force losses they suffered over the Netherlands when they invaded this small neighb...
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Not Home For Christmas
A day in the life of the Mighty Eighth
When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old boy living in Nazi-occupied the Netherlands, an American B-17 bomber crashed on Sunday, November 26, 1944, behind his house near the town...
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No Return Flight
13 Platoon at Arnhem 1944
This book tells the story of the search for the men aboard a huge Horsa glider that sailed into the Battle at Arnhem on September 18, 1944. In the early phase of the battle the pil...
USD 36.95 / CAD 36.95
The Windmill Herald - 1012 Back Copies Set
Following the announcement of The Windmill Herald’s exit, an interest has emerged in back issues. A set of 12 issues published in 2012, includes the Farewell Issue and the Dutch He...
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The Windmill Herald - Archive Copies
The colourful centre pages spreads on Dutch history themes remain popular with many subscribers, their family, friends and even neighbours. A volume of 34 issues (covering 17 month...
USD 99.95 / CAD 99.95
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
This book provides an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who called the former Dutch East I...
USD 32.95 / CAD 32.95
Pier 21 Listen to My Story
Discover some of the most important moments of Canada's history by getting to know the children and their families who arrived at Halifax's Pier 21. From countries as far away as E...
USD 15.95 / CAD 15.95
The Hiding Place DVD
Based on the true story detailed in the bestseller book The Hiding Place that has captivated over 8,000,000 readers, the dvd The Hiding Place is one of the most extraordinary recol...
USD 23.95 / CAD 23.95
Lest We Forget
A Dutch-Jewish family’s thriller-true story of Nazi persecution and survival in the Netherlands. Mandy and her younger sister lived with various Dutch families in the country’s Sou...
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