Together with Maarten Swarts (maps and design). Title: Fighting between the river Meuse and the Sand dunes. This small size book (22 x 15 cms) has only 128 pages. It is a brief history of events in the Langstraat (Waalwijk and surroundings) between the liberation (end of October 1944) and the end of the war (May 1945). It is largely based on newspaper reports and diaries. It contains about 100 photos some of which Maarten and I found in the photo archives of the Imperial War Museum in London. The captions are not always correct and were later amended by us in other books. The cover design was made by Maarten. People interested in the Polish 1st Armoured Division may recognize the left hand side of the drawing!

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Together with Maarten Swarts (maps and design). This book (A4 size, 224 pages, 300 photos) was published in the fall of 1984 to coincide with the remembrance activities concerning the Liberation of the south of our country. The title means: Objective Meuse. The fighting in the South of the Netherlands between September and December 1944. It is based on extensive research of  primary sources (war diaries from both sides) and contains many photos published for the first time. The book is still a very good read, among other things due to Maarten’s  fantastic maps. We also received help from A.Korthals-Altes (author of a book about the Battle for Overloon) and Karel Margry (currently European editor for the After the Battle Magazine). Once again the cover is by Maarten. A pity the publisher cut costs on the quality of the binding!

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This is the first book that Maarten and I published together. We set up a publishing firm for the occassion,called De Zwaardvisch (the Swordfish) after our favourite comic by E.P.Jacobs. The book (A4, 120 pages, hundreds of photos) is a kind of sentimental journey through the fifties in Waalwijk and in our own lives. The title translates as Waalwijk between War and Prosperity. A pictorial history of the period 1946-1964. It is fun to read, it was fun to make, in brief a book to relax even if you were not there at the time.

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(Title: A provincial town in wartime. Waalwijk and environs 1939-1945). The second book made and produced by Maarten (design and maps) end myself (text). Again A4, 272 pages and over 300 photos.  I am particularly proud of this book as it is not only a fund of information but also still highly readable. This was very difficult because it has to deal with so many different subjects one after the other (mobilisation, liberation, war victims, food distribution, Holocaust, resistance, Fascist organisations etc) and still provide a continuing narrative. Once again mainly primary sources were used as well as interviews and letters (from among others Scottish liberators from the 51st (H) Division).

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(Literally: Brabant Liberated). This book is an amended version of Einddoel Maas, concentrating solely on the Province of Noord Brabant and leaving out the fighting in the provices of Zeeland and Limburg. A4, 283 pages, many new photos (in all: 300+) were used in comparison with its 1984 predecessor. Highly valued by the official Dutch Military Historical Section of the Army.

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Together with Maarten Swarts (maps and design). As the title makes clear this book is in the English language. It was produced for the veterans of the 51st who visited Brabant in 1994. Of course Maarten and I had a few extra printed to sell to anyone interested. A4, 56 pages, the last 15 about the towns liberated by the Highlanders. Foreword by General Sir Derek Lang.

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Together with Maarten Swarts. (Literally: 75 years Provincial Town). This book (A4, 176 pages, 310 photos) is mainly about building in Waalwijk during the 21st century and shows the changing skyline of the three towns that merged in 1922: Waalwijk, Baardwijk and Besoijen before the big merger between Waalwijk, Waspik and Sprang in 1995.

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Title: Waalwijk and the World War. Six stories from the period 1939-1945. With Maarten Swarts (design) and Jan van Oudheusden (three chapters). Intended for secondary schools. I wrote the stories of the burgomaster (Moonen, executed by the SS), the liberator (Nairne) and the resistance fighter (Wachtels van den Berg), Jan wrote the chapters on the Dutch soldier (Wagemakers), the student (Verwiel) and the Jew (Van Adelberg). Again a Zwaardvisch production, A4, 56 pages, around 50 photos and some appendices.

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