I'll be putting a list here of my war and war-related books.
I collect mostly 2nd hand books, comics and lots of those small sized bathroom books, love the smell of old books
I will translate the titles as good as possible with ISBN numbers. (slag=battle) (verhaal=story) (strijd=fight)
Dutch title - original title - writer - publishing year of the edition I own - ISBN - (info)
World War IAces and Airmen of World War I - Alan C. Wood - 2002 - ISBN 1 85753 380 1
365 pictures 1914-1918 - ISBN 9 789020 986150 (
link)
NEW: De Grote Oorlog: Toen en nu - Staf Schoeters - ISBN 978 90 5826 824 2 (info:
LINK)
NEW: Tot aan de Ijzer - Max Deauville - ISBN 978 90 8679 413 3 (info:
www.maxdeauville.be )
World War IIDe twaalf verdoemden - (The dirty dozen) - E.M. Nathanson - (the book for the movie)
De 13de vallei - (13th Vallley) - John M. Del Vecchio - edition 1982 - ISBN 90 6790 005 2
Jachtvlieger - (Fighter Pilot) - Jan Flinterman - 1962 - ISBN ? - 2nd hand - (Dutch Spitfire pilot with the RAF during WWII)
De strijd om Wake Island - (Wake Island) - Duane Schultz - 1981 - ISBN 90 6057 337 4
Jonge honden Oude helden - (Young dogs, Old heroes) - Jan Biesemaat - 2002 - ISBN 90 4390 289 6 - (Dutch submarine sailor on Dutch submarine 021)
Een brug te ver - (A bridge too far) - Cornelius Ryan - 1974 - ISBN 90 269 4521 3
De laatste slag - (The Last Battle) - Cornelius Ryan - 1966 - ISBN ?
Pegasus bridge - Stephen E. Ambrose - ISBN 978 90 8968 022 8
Tiger Ten (Commando Zero) - William D. Blankenship - ISBN 90 6371 011 9
The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw - 6th print 1956 - ISBN ?
NEW History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - ISBN 1-8589-4374-4:
infoDictionary of the Third Reich - James Taylor and Warren Shaw - 1997 - ISBN 0-14051-389-2
Het Komplot 20 Juli 1944 - Roger Manvell - 1971 - ISBN 90 02 12661 1
Het verhaal van de HitlerJugend - Brenda Ralph Lewis - ISBN 90 243 8157 6
De geschiedenis van het propagandatijdschrift SIGNAAL - Ludwig Verduyn - 1984 - ISBN 90 6749 001 6 (
The history of the propaganda magazine SIGNAAL)(TOP!)
BelgiumBelgië bezet - (Belgium ocupied) - Fabian van Samang - 2004 - ISBN 90 209 5853 4 (
colour pictures taken by WWII photographer Otto Kropf - collection of Otto Spronk showing the life in Belgium during the occupation)
België bevrijd - (Belgium liberated) - Dirk Musschoot - 2004 - ISBN 90 209 5748 1 (
20 stories about the life during the liberation, same publisher as the book above)
De gijzelaars van St.Michielsgestel en Haaren - (hostages of StM & H (Holland)) - J.C.H. Blom - ISBN 90 5018 186 4 (
hostages that were executed after the resistance-attack on a German train)
NEW: De Laatste getuigen uit concentratie- en vernietigingskampen (The last witnesses of concentration and extermination camps) - scholars interviewing witnesses - ISBN 978 90 5487 737 0 - info: LINKTechnical stuffWat weet ik van gevechtsvliegtuigen 1914-1945 - (What do I know about fighterplanes 1914-1945) - (
Dutch schoolbook-coloured drawings-1airplane on double page with minor text-no idea on year or such)
Waffen-SS An Illustrated history - Adrian Gilbert - 1989 - ISBN 0 8317 9286 8
Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer der Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und Bundeswehr - edition 1970 - Werner Oswald
Luftwaffe secret projects - Fighters 1939-1945 - Walter Schick & Ingolf Meyer - ISBN 1 85780 052 4
Spielberger - Schwere Jagdpanzer - ISBN 9 783613 032965
Spielberger - Panzer VI Tiger - ISBN 9 783613 031647
Ian Baxter - German Panzer markings (from wartime photographs)
True storiesGezworen Kameraden - Leon Ulris - ISBN 90 6045 345 X (Battle Cry 1954)
Gedropt bij maanlicht - Jacques Doneux, Kapitein - ISBN 90 5617 349 9 (They arrived by Moonlight)
Ontmoeting met de bevrijding - Piet Baghus - ISBN 90 6045 268 2 (
Meeting Liberty)
Voorbij Band of Brothers - Dick Winters - ISBN 90 225 4256 1 (Beyond Band of Brothers)
De bittere weg naar de vrijheid - William I. Hitchcock - ISBN 978 90 351 2825 5 (The bitter road to freedom. A new history of the Liberation of Europe)
Brieven uit de oorlog (Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945) - Heinrich Böll - ISBN 9 789029 564649
Te wapen voor Hitler (At arms for Hitler) - Flore Plisnier - ISBN 978 90 8542 142 9 (armed collaboration in French speaking Belgium 1940-1944)
Battles and OperationsDe slag om Antwerpen en de Schelde 1944-45[/b] - 1978 - ISBN 90 6045 141 4
Slag om de Schelde - R.W. Thompson - 1957 (The eighty-five days)
Warschau Opstand - (Warschau Uprising) - Gunter Deschner - 1992 - ISBN 90 02 19093 X
De slag om de Rijn (Arnhem, Schelde en Ardennen) - Robin Neillands - 2005/2007 - ISBN 978 90 453 0548 6
The Battle of the Bulge (comic) - Willy Harold Vassaux - ISBN 2-9600200-2-2 (
LINK) (English/US version)
900 Dagen (900 Days) - Harrison Salisbury - ISBN 90 245 0274 8
Operation Nordwind (Operation Northwind: the unknown battle of the bulge) - Charles Whiting - ISBN 90 6045 588 6
Operation Chariot - Stuart Chant-Sempill - ISBN 90 6045 500 2
Les panzers de Peiper face a l' U.S. Army (with additional englich translation book) - Gérard Grégoire - no ISBN - only available at the museum
Transport XX - Maxime Steinberg & Laurence Schram - ISBN 978 90 5487 478 2
La bataille des Ardennes (Jours de Guerre) - ISBN 2 87193 277 8 (Battle for the Ardennes)
De slag om de Ardennen - ISBN 90 438 1189 (Battle for the Ardennes)
Het verhaal van de Waffen-SS - Christopher Ailsby - ISBN 90 438 1479 2 (Story of the Waffen-SS)
De slag om Arnhem - Lloyd Clark - ISBN 90 438 1336 2 (Battle for Arnhem)
Het Oostfront - Will Fowler - ISBN 90 438 1053 3 (Eastern Front)
Massamoord in Malmédy? - Gerd J.G. Cuppens - ISBN 978 90 77895 481 (Massmurder at Malmédy?)
NEW: Un jour sans soleil - 19 Aout 1942 - Sous le regard des Dieppois - Sophie Tabesse-Mallèvre - ISBN not yet available - book about Dieppe written by locals with testimonies, bought it in Dieppe, book is from June 2011.
German personalitiesVon Stauffenberg - G.S. Graber - 1973 - ISBN 90 02 13390 1
Höss - Kommandant in Auschwitz - autobiography - 1960 ISBN ?
Eichmann - David Cesarani - ISBN 90 7634 149 4 (Biography on Eichmann)
De moord op Rudolf Hess - Dr Hugh Thomas - ISBN 90 70427 47 8 (Hess, a tale of two murders)
HITLERHitlers troepen (Die Wehrmacht - Ein Bilanz - Guido Knopp - ISBN 978 90 02 23165
Hitler in België (Au ravin du loup. Hitler en Belgique et en France mai-juin 1940) - René Mathot - ISBN 90 209 4217 4
Ian Kershaw - Hitler 1889-1936 ISBN 978 90 274 6981 6
Ian Kershaw - Hitler 1936-1945 ISBN 978 90 274 6872 3
Complot tegen Hitler - Guido Knopp - 2004/2008(translated) - ISBN 978 90 5977 352 3
Adolf Hitler - Christian Zentner - ISBN 3 7735 4015 9
NEW: Ian Kershaw: The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 - ISBN 978 90 4910 356 9
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/17/ian-kershaw-life-writing-interviewNEW: Hitler's Letters And Notes - Werner Maser - ISBN 978 94 6153 070 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_Letters_and_NotesVietnamPlatoon - Dale A. Dye - ISBN90 225 0751 3
Osprey collection (bought at 2.50€/piece)
Men-at-Arms?: Waffen-SS (1976 reprint)
22: Luftwaffe Airborne and Field Units (1976 reprint)
24: The Panzer Divisions (Revised Edition 1982 print)
34: The Waffen-SS (1982 print)
53: Rommel's Desert Army (1976 print)
124: German Commanders of WWII (1982 print)
131: Germany's Eastern Front Allies 1941-45
139: German Airborne Troops 1939-45 (1983 print)
147: Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941-45
213: German Military Police Units 1939-45 (1989 print)
220: The SA 1921-45: Hitler's Stormtroopers
229: Luftwaffe Field Divisions 1941-45 (1990 print)
254: Wehrmacht Auxiliary forces
266: The Allgemeine -SS
274: Flags of the Third Reich 2: Waffen-SS
278: Flags of the Third Reich 3: Party & Police units
282: Axis forces in Yugoslavia 1941-4
361: Axis Cavalry in WWII
363: Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2)
377: Luftwaffe Air & Ground crew 1939-1945
385: The 'Hermann Göring' Division
393: WWII German Women's Auxiliary Services
434: WWII German Police Units
Elite106: Wehrmacht Combat helmets 1933-45
114: Knight's Cross and Oak-loaves recipients 1939-1940
118: German commanders of WWII (1)
123: Knight's Cross and Oak-leaves recipients 1941-1945
132: German commanders of WWII (2)
133: Knight's Cross, Oak-leaves and Swords recipients 1941-45
139: Knight's Cross with Diamonds recipients 1941-45
157: The German Home front 1939-45
177: German special Forces of WWII
Campaign42: Bagration 1944
159: Berlin 1945
205: Warsaw 1944
Vanguard4: Fallschirmpanzerdivision 'Hermann Göring'
New Vanguard170: Spanish Civil war tanks
Warrior36: Grey Wolf - U-Boat men of WWII
37: German Seaman 1939-45
61: German Security and Police soldier 1939-45
76: German Infantryman (2) Eastern Front 1941-43
93: German Infantryman (3) Eastern Front 1943-45
99:
Kampfflieger: Bomber Crewman of the Luftwaffe 1939-45
102: The Hitler Youth 1933-45
110: Hitler's Home Guard: Volkssturmmann (Western Front, 1944-45)
last updated: December 3 2011