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Fokker D.XXI Aces of World War 2
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran the factory before this commenced. The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the German invasion of the west on 10 May 1940,... more...
Kings and Vikings
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion. more...
The Norse Discovery of America
Start Publishing LLC 2013; US$ 1.99This work brings together for the first time the interpretation of the best authorities respecting the evidences, historical, archaeologic, inscriptive, and deductive, of Norse discovery, occupation, and colonization of America five centuries before the time of Columbus. The subject, though it has engaged in a general way the attention of historians... more...
Moderniser of Russia
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00This book investigates Russia's transformation into a European Power by way of the activities of the tsarist translator and official Andrei Vinius, who became an important advisor to Peter the Great. Vinius emerges as an influential conduit of Western culture and technology, who played a key role in transforming Muscovy into Russia. more...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great... more...
The Soviet Invasion of Finland 1939-40
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 30.95Western accounts of the Soviet-Finnish war have been reliant on Western sources. Using Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in conflict with Finland, Carl Van Dyke offers a reassessment of the conflict. more...
The Viking Tales
Start Publishing LLC 2012; US$ 0.99Jennie Hall is most noted for her fascinating travel memoirs of the late eighteenth century. She produced vibrant narratives and brilliantly vivid descriptions that have made her popular among readers who wish to be transported into another area or time period. Her "Viking Tales" is an excellent example of that. The story follows the life of the... more...
Mannerheim
Haus Publishing 2012; US$ 17.95The amazing life of Gustav Mannerheim, a life tragically and heroically intertwined with the twentieth century. more...
Czech Political Prisoners
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 59.99Czech Political Prisoners is about the legacy of political violence under Socialism in Central Eastern Europe. In light of reconciliation, in post-Socialist Czech Republic former political prisoners? various memories reveal how the notions of time, space, and law were altered under the long-term terror of a totalitarian regime. Claiming their... more...
Lentolaivue 24
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 16.95Finland's premier fighter squadron during World War 2, Lentolaivue 24 (Flying Squadron 24) first saw action during the bloody Winter War of 1939-40, when the Soviet Red Army launched a surprise attack on the small Scandinavian country - the squadron enjoyed great success against numerically superior opposition. LLv 24 was once again in the thick of... more...









