Books Tagged: 20th Century

The Desert War: The classic trilogy on the North African campaign 1940-1943 - Alan Moorehead Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands - Alexander Watson I gave the book 5 stars.

Slag in de Javazee: oorlog tussen Nederland en Japan, 1941-1942 - Anne Doedens Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

De Slag om Arnhem - Antony Beevor Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Churchill - Ashley Jackson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close - Bill Close Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 - Christopher Clark Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland - Christopher R. Browning Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

World War II at Sea: A Global History - Craig L. Symonds Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy - David E. Hoffman Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

1914-1918: The History of the First World War - David Stevenson I gave the book 4 stars.

Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy - Douglas Smith Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Spain in Arms: A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939 - E.R. Hooton Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent - Fred Bridgland Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die - Garrett M. Graff Finished on 1st of December. I gave the book 5 stars.

Nach Holland - Gerard Groeneveld Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

November 1918: Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 - Gordon Brook-Shepherd Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front - Günter K. Koschorrek Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Eerste Wereldoorlog - H.P. Willmott I gave the book 4 stars.

Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 - Henrik O. Lunde Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger I gave the book 4 stars.

Mei 1940: de strijd op Nederlands grondgebied - Herman Amersfoort Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Somme: Into the Breach - Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

In het diepste geheim - Jaime Karremann Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Innocence Slaughtered: Gas and the Transformation of Warfare and Society - Jean Pascal Zanders Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

De intriges van de gebroeders Sassen - Jochem Botman Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World - Laura Spinney Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union - Luuk van Middelaar Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942 - Mark Zuehlke Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Boer War - Martin Bossenbroek Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Falklands War - Martin Middlebrook I gave the book 4 stars.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 - Max Hastings Finished on 17th of August. I gave the book 5 stars.

Catastrophe - Max Hastings Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Korean War - Max Hastings Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Korean War - Max Hastings I gave the book 5 stars.

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 - Max Hastings I gave the book 5 stars.

Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy 1943-1945 - Michael Carver Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster - Michael Mueller Finished on 29th of December. I gave the book 5 stars.

De grote oorlogen - Niall Ferguson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe - Norman Davies Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Te vuur en te zwaard - Olaf van Nimwegen I gave the book 4 stars.

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 - Peter Baxter Finished on 8th of August. I gave the book 4 stars.

China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 - Rana Mitter Finished on 12th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

De brandende kampongs van Generaal Spoor - Rèmy Limpach Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy - Richard Freiherr von Rosen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Hope - Robin Cross Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War - Saul David Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Acht dagen in mei: De laatste week van het Derde Rijk - Volker Ullrich Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 - Volker Ullrich Finished on 21st of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 (Hitler Biographies) - Volker Ullrich Finished on 9th of April. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias - W. Bruce Lincoln Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Verdun 1916: The Deadliest Battle of the First World War - William F. Buckingham Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 - William R. Trotter Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Last Panther - The Halbe Kessel 1945 - Wolfgang Faust Finished on 20th of June. I gave the book 5 stars.

Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir - Wolfgang Faust Finished on 15th of June. I gave the book 5 stars.