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WWII History
Four Years till Tomorrow
Despair and Hope in Wartime Dutch East Indies
The surrender of the Japanese in South East Asia on August 15th, 1945 was for Dutch civilian camp internees only the beginning of yet another period of upheaval, hostilities and pe...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
Star Children
The Holocaust may never be forgotten for its horrible stain on the history of mankind. This book is about a WWII episode which is unique in itself: a small group of Jewish prisoner...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
When Canada Was Home
The Story of Dutch Princess Margriet
What is the story behind all those tulip bulbs Princess Juliana gave to Ottawa, way back in the Fall of 1945? That's the annual gift that blossomed into full bloom as the enormousl...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
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 van Mansum, realizing these fellow citizens were in great...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95
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 offered at great ri...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
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 ...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
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...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
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 ...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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 - t...
USD 13.95 / CAD 17.95
Becoming Canadian
Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant
Thousands of Western European immigrants streamed into Canada after the Second World War, seeking refuge from the economic devastation of their homelands. Many wanted to assimilate...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
In the Shadow of the Sun
...and they persevered; a tribute to a caring mother. Author Ronny Herman shares with the reader her mother’s anxieties, frustrations, and hopes of the time when she with her two y...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Eldest daughter of eight children, the author was raised in a teacher’s family in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. The family was segregated when the occupying Japanese a...
USD 29.95 / CAD 34.95
Song of Survival
Women Interned
They survived three-and-a half years in a Japanese concentration camp for women and children in Sumatra during World War II. But these courageous women - missionaries, teachers, nu...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
It Began With a Parachute
‘Christian Week’: "It is a well-told tale set in Holland near the end of the Second World War... The story, although chock-full of details about life in war-inflicted Holland, rema...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
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...
USD 21.95 / CAD 27.95
Sabotage
Volume 5, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
The Grim Reaper
Volume 3, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
The Lonely Sentinel
Volume 1, the Shadow Series
A windmill standing guard over Dutch polders; the miller's family wrestling with death and treachery; innocent children playing adult games of secrecy and intrigue; hapless refugee...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
The Partisans
Volume 4
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
When a Neighbor Came Calling
Memories of the WWII Nazi occupation of the Netherlands will never be forgotten by those who lived through it. These memories should not fade away either. This book compiled by Alb...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
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 7.95 / CAD 9.95
Dawning Of A New Day
The book's key characters John and Joan, childhood friends who each went their own way, meet again later in life. John finds that he still cares deeply about Joan and wants to know...
USD 12.95 / CAD 16.95
Journey Through the Night
This famed book captures the spirit and agony of the five harrowing years of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands remarkably well. "This is more than just a war-time adventure. The c...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 34.95 / CAD 42.95
Companion To All Our Children
A companion index was compiled for the 512-page volume to make it accessible for anyone using it for immigration research purposes. The index includes the names of people, places a...
USD 6.95 / CAD 8.95
A Rescuer's Story
Pastor Pierre Charles Toureille in Vichy France
This is the story of a Holocaust rescuer, Pierre Toureille, a French Protestant pastor whose efforts resulted in the rescue of refugees, most of them Jewish. Inspired by his Huguen...
USD 28.95 / CAD 37.95
Hideout in the Swamp
Volume 2, the Shadow Series
Part of the book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWI...
USD 9.95 / CAD 12.95
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Zuiderkruis (ship model)
and sister ships Groote Beer / Waterman
These three made Dutch immigrant history by sailing to Australia and Canada and New Zealand! All three ships are 1944 Portland, Oregon-built convertible war-effort Victory class ve...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
Oorlog in Zuid-Limburg
10 mei 1940
For Dutch military strategists the defense of Southern Limburg in terms of the overall policy made little sense. For Germany, the protruding tongue wedged between it and...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
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...
USD 12.95 / CAD 14.95
The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949
Survivors' accounts of the Japanese occupation and eyewitness stories of the ensuing struggle for an independent Indonesia. Unlike the story of the liberation of the Netherlands, t...
USD 29.95 / CAD 39.95
Unspoken Allies
Anglo-Dutch Relations since 1780.
This study brings together the expertise of an international group of scholars to survey the development of political and economic relations between Britain and the Netherlands fro...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
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 16.95 / CAD 19.95
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
The Battle for Ginkel Heath near Ede
17 and 18 September 1944
British paratroopers remember the Ginkel Heath often with mixed emotions but is far less known among the Dutch public. Here may be why. Even now, decades after the actual landing, ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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 29.95 / CAD 39.95
The Roommate of Anne Frank
In the autumn of 1987, a small bundle containing photographs and newspaper clippings once belonging to Charlotte Kaletta, was found at the Amsterdam flea market by an employee of t...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
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...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Life Lessons From the Hiding Place
Discovering the heart of Corrie Ten Boom
Dutch-born citizen Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her faith. From her unforgettable experience in a WWII Nazi prison camp ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 21.95
A Bloom of Friendship
The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival
Every spring, Canada’s capital, Ottawa, bursts into colour with hundreds of thousands of tulip blooms. These represent the token of appreciation of the Dutch Royal family for the c...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
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, ...
USD 21.95 / CAD 27.95
Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture
The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II
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. That point becomes clear in this boo...
USD 34.95 / CAD 48.95
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 WWII. This film recognizes the efforts of the nu...
USD 7.95 / 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 this now occupied country. With the military conquest out of the way, the Nazis increasingly attempted to ...
USD 10.95 / CAD 14.95
Scout - The Secret of the Swamp
Volume 1
Tom and his chum Carl and Scout, finds them self caught up in the events of World War Two. A youthful adventurer, Tom repeatedly is forced to rely on his clever dog Scout. As the A...
USD 7.95 / CAD 9.95
The Scout Series - All 7 volumes
Order this collector's dream to many boys
Join Scout, Tom’s very intelligent four-legged friend on his adventures with his master, and master’s chums Carl and Bert. The stories detail courageous efforts to help liberate th...
USD 64.95 / CAD 79.95
Werken in Duitsland 1940-1945
Over 100 former slave labourers share the stories of their ordeal in Germany and other WWII Nazi occupied territories. These accounts are expertly woven into the story line that ru...
USD 19.95 / CAD 25.95
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 WWII Nazi ...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
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 n...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
The Shadow Series
Five volumes
One of the most exciting series by a master story teller, about the emotional time of the German occupation of the Netherlands during the WWII (1940-1945). The setting is typically...
USD 43.95 / CAD 55.95
Duizend Dagen Indie
The editors of this book formatted the 1945-1948 diary of shock trooper Jan van Trigt, a WWII resistance man who volunteered for the Dutch army following the liberation of the Neth...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
Opmars naar Rotterdam
Volume 1 – De luchtlanding Volume 2 – Van Maas tot Moerdijk Volume 3 – De laatste fase The author, a Dutch military historian, minutely traces the May 1940 e...
USD 38.95 / CAD 49.95
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 20.95 / CAD 27.95
The Hiding Place
A Dutch watchmaker, Corrie ten Boom became a heroine of the Dutch Resistance against the Nazi ideology, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and a remarkable evangelist for ...
USD 12.95 / CAD 18.95
Arnhem 1944
Operation Market Garden
The Allied plan 'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial operations of the WWII - a joint penetration, by an armoured column and a large-scale ai...
USD 18.95 / CAD 22.95
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 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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 ...
USD 18.95 / CAD 24.95
Boris
It was hunger that drove 12 year-old Boris and his friend Nadia to forage for potatoes in the off-limit No-Man’s land that separated the Russian and German lines around the besiege...
USD 9.95 / CAD 11.95
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
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 ...
USD 23.95 / CAD 29.95
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...
USD 13.95 / CAD 18.95
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 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Nederlanders, Japanners, Indonesiers
Een opmerkelijke tentoonstelling
Those interested in Dutch history quickly discover a vast amount of foreign influences in every period of Dutch history, from the Romans in pre-medieval times to Afghanistan and WW...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume shares the story of the tense final days of WWII, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liber...
USD 27.95 / CAD 34.95
Not Home for Christmas
A Day in the Life of the Mighty Eighth
When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland, an American B-17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of Apeldoorn. The date was S...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
The Little Coat
The Bob and Sue Elliott Story
A young girl's memories of the war! 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...
USD 14.95 / CAD 18.95
De Meelstreep
Terugkeer en opvang na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
What was coming home like to exiles, 'colonials', deportees and concentration camp survivors? A royal welcome for them too? This book starts of with the Dutch royal family and then...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Bellen voor de vrijheid
Illegale telefoonverbindingen in WO II
There is one Dutch secret the Nazis never discovered during the occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945). It was a secret as well to nearly Dutch people, allowing the resistance m...
USD 8.95 / CAD 13.95
Verstoorde vrede
Foto’s van Nederland tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
During World War I, neutrality turned out to be a painful experience for the Dutch public. The Netherlands remained neutral during the WWI conflict but did not enjoy peace. Both ca...
USD 17.95 / CAD 22.95
En nog steeds hebben wij twee vaderlanden
Op avontuur in Nederlands-Indië
Roots in the Dutch East Indies and searching for context to your family history? You may want to read this book. Before 1940, Amsterdam residents in search for a job could just as ...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
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 29.95 / CAD 36.95
Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian worldview
How the Nazi eugenic crusade for a superior race caused the greatest Holocaust in world history
This book takes a fresh look at Germany's most influential Nazi leaders, examining their backgrounds, education and convictions. It provides compelling evidence that the rising inf...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
From Rotterdam to Vught to Vancouver
A Dutch Immigrant family's journey from the ravages of concentration Camp 'Vught' to Beautiful British Columbia
This is a book about certain events in Nazi occupied the Netherlands (1940-1945), written by the daughter of a couple who served in the Dutch resistance, pushing back against the W...
USD 19.95 / CAD 24.95
99 dollar sale
Dutch (Immigrant) Heritage Sale. Valid April-May 2023
Up to a weight of 5KG or a $99 retail value of titles on Dutch immigrant history and related Netherlandic subjects, including such titles as To All Our Children, Floral Passion and...
USD 99.00 / CAD 99.00
Lest We Forget
A Dutch-Jewish family’s thriller-true story of Nazi persecution and survival in the Netherlands during WWII. Mandy and her younger sister lived with various Dutch families in the c...
USD 24.95 / CAD 29.95
To All Our Children
The Story of Postwar Dutch Immigration to Canada
This large coffee-table book is back in print. To All Our Children describes in extensive detail the process of wanting to leave one's home and extended family so soon follo...
USD 35.95 / CAD 44.95