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Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them Best Price: $10.13 Imagine that you-an experienced homebrewer-got to gather around a fire with some folks who had... | IT NEVER SNOWS IN SEPTEMBER: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944 Best Price: $10.85 excellent view of the WWII market garden campaign from the german side of the battle. it... | Rubens A&I (Art and Ideas) Best Price: $7.94 Being in an art history masters program, I have read many books. However, this Rubens book as... | Damien the Leper Best Price: $4.79 It is often difficult to write a critical reveiw of a biography of a man that you deeply admire.... | The Murder of Charles the Good (Records of Western Civilization Series) Best Price: $27.70 The events of 1127 surrounding the murder of count Charles the Good of Flanders, provided an... |
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A Tour of the Bulge Battlefield Best Price: $14.94 My Father (a WWII veteran) and I made an extraordinary trip with Cavanagh through the Ardennes... | History of the Low Countries Best Price: $25.98 It is next to impossible to find a comprehensive history book on the Netherlands or Belgium here... | Wellington At Waterloo (Greenhill Military Paperbacks) Best Price: $14.75 This was the second of Jac Weller's three volume studies on the generalship and tactics of... | Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 Best Price: $28.50 I didn't have the taste to finish this book, but I did read parts and I plan to keep it around... | To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War (C.A. Brannen Series) Best Price: $20.34 To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War by Peter F. Owen was a... |
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Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $28.00 There is little to add to the previous excellent reviews except to express the wish the... | Fort Eben Emael: The Key to Hitler's Victory in the West (Fortress) Best Price: $8.53 This book was a pleasant surprise. The German assault on Eben Emael tends to be covered very... | The Battle of the Bulge Best Price: $5.96 This is a short. easy read that never strays far from its title subject. I recommend The... | Mons 1914: The BEF's Tactical Triumph (Campaign) Best Price: $10.96 Lots of pictures in this book that I'd never seen before and excellent maps throughout as well... | GERMAN ARMY AT PASSCHENDAELE Best Price: $32.62 Even after the passage of almost a century, the name Passchendaele has lost none of its power to... |
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Wellington's Belgian Allies 1815 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $7.46 Ronald Pawly has done an excellent job in capturing the history of Belgian arms in the period... | Poland's Jewish Landmarks: A Travel Guide Best Price: $6.16 This stand alone volume is a wonderful beggining of an index of Jewish sites in Poland and is a... | One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo Best Price: $5.99 This author seems to have a decidely anti-Napoleonic bias. While on the surface there is... | 1815 The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, His German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras Best Price: $30.00 Peter Hofschroer is by no means alone in his effort to set the historical record straight about... | The Portable Magritte (Portables) Best Price: $11.98 Magritte, straight up - his pictures and almost nothing else.
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Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years Best Price: $19.00 Readers may be interested in these letters that appeared about the Defonseca saga in the Globe:
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A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture) Best Price: $13.21 Exploring the nature of the aesthetic medium has been at the heart of much of modern art. For... | Magritte (World of Art) Best Price: $7.85 This book illustrates the reader through Magritte's life while giving background to the works. I... | The Battle: A New History of Waterloo Best Price: $4.24 This author has taken a somewhat different approach to a very well covered topic. Instead of... | Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge (Battleground Europe Series) Best Price: $7.95 As with all of the books in the Battleground Europe series, BASTOGNE is a combination of... | First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany Best Price: $1.56 After hearing about Col Pergrin in the Philly news (WWII anniversary) I was hoping to find a... |
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A History of the Low Countries (Palgrave Essential Histories) Best Price: $22.00 I have just finished this delightful book, "The Low Countries". I am not an academic,... | Mons Star: The British Expeditionary Force 1914 Best Price: $20.09 The battle of Mons in August 1914 endures as one of the British Army's greatest moments, despite... | Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-1918 Best Price: $41.98 I was vaguely familiar with the extent of mining in WWI due to a TV special on one of the... | A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front Best Price: $4.95 I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. An excellent read for anyone interested in WW1. No... | Death of an Army (Wordsworth Military Library) Best Price: $8.16 What were the events that caused that famous part of the Western Front to form around the little... |
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The Low Sky in Pictures: Understanding the Dutch Very well written. I think you will really enjoy this. | Lambic (Classic Beer Style Series) Excellent book on the history and chemistry of brewing Lambic beers. Unfortunately it is out of... | Notes on the Battle of Waterloo (The Spellmount Library of Military History) Best Price: $0.01 First published in 1865, this is a facsimile of an extremely rare and lively account of the... | Ten Thousand Eyes: The Amazing Story of the Spy Network That Cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall Before D-Day Best Price: $2.44 At the darkest hour in France's history, after the defeat by the Germans in 1940, a plan was... | History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815: Containing Minute Details of the Battles of Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo Best Price: $27.97 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1848 edition by T. and W. Boone, London. |
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Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo Best Price: $10.27 Well, this is a waste.
The author fails the reader in every possible way:
Poorly researched,... | Flemish Tapestry Best Price: $232.55 Flemish tapestry ranks among the most luxurious and skillful textile traditions in the world. At... | The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians Best Price: $10.69 The legend is that during a massive WWI German attack at Mons, just as the retreating Tommies... | Cassell Military Classics: Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground Best Price: $4.18 Between 31 July and 6 November 1917, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) under the command of... | The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I Best Price: $40.00 I have long held the view that the United States should have stayed out of World War I. Larry... |
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Passchendaele: The Untold Story Best Price: $14.98 This book is an excellent account of the battles of the Third Ypres campaign, the strategy and... | The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944 Best Price: $0.01 The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944
A really superior... | First Ypres 1914: The Graveyard of the Old Contemptibles (Campaign) Best Price: $10.69 i noted that this book focuses mainly on the heroism of the British units at first ypres.In the... | Escape from Hitler's Europe: An American Airman behind Enemy Lines Best Price: $8.03 "So this was how men died in planes. People have asked me whether it's true that your... | The Low Countries 1780-1940 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) Best Price: $189.99 Mr. Kossmans technique of comparing and contrasting The Netherlands and Belgium in dual... |
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EBEN EMAEL (Secret Operations) Best Price: $19.57 During the interwar years the major European powers learnt the military lessons of World War 1.... | Bobbins Of Belgium - A Book Of Belgian Lace, Lace-Workers, Lace-Schools And Lace-Villages Best Price: $30.45 Text extracted from opening pages of book: BOBBINS OF BELGIUM A BOOK OF BELGIAN LACE, LACE... | The Battle of the Airfields: Operation Bodenplatte, 1 January 1945 Operation Bodenplatte was devised to despatch 800 Luftwaffe fighters to attack Allied bases in... | Brussels for Pleasure: Seven Walks Through the Historic City (Pallas for Pleasure) Best Price: $6.89 Reading this book is like discovering the city yourself, and most of all it will take along... | FONTENOY: France Rules over Europe (Men & Battles) Best Price: $38.50 May 1745. After a brief start to the campaign, the French Army under the Mare'chal de Saxe laid... |
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From Van Eyck to Bruegel Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Best Price: $42.95 This handsomely produced Abrams book catalogues the key works of Netherlandish Art held by New... | Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism Best Price: $30.00 This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of responses to the war-time... | Brussels: The Art of Living "The beautiful exteriors and often subdued interiors shown [here] have at least one thing... | | |