Lars Gyllenhaal

A 22-year-old Swiss student decided to kill Adolf Hitler and got very close to succeeding. The capture of two unusual Waffen-SS soldiers in ...

It´s not every day that you find a new book about the SAS in Norway and discover one more Nordic in the ranks of the SAS. Well, With the SAS...

There are lots of books about foreign volunteers in the Waffen-SS and not as many about the foreigners in the Wehrmacht. What makes A Europe...

I simply can not imagine a more beautiful book about special forces than this one. If you have read my book about elite forces in the Nord...

SAS VC holder Anders Lassen (1st from the left) always catches my attention. The story they presented was that they were a neutral Swedish...

Without him there would today probably be no 22nd Special Air Service Regiment. Quite a few readers of this blog may have read several boo...

A surprisingly good StuG book for both AFV buffs and modellers. Having a special interest in StuGs it takes a special StuG book to surpris...

An attractive cover for a special operations reference book not just about the SOE. When you have read about Special Operations Executive ...

Superb for those of you who have been to Normandy but want to discover more. Recently I reviewed Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches an...

277 large size pages about the Waffen-SS and the battle of Narva 1944. Rather surprisingly, this year two books focused on Nordics in the ...

This new battlefield guide by Gareth Hughes will improve most trips to Normandy. Very pleasantly surprised by this one. Visiting the Norma...

Winged dagger patch for Reinforced Regional Task Force of the Swedish Police. The new edition of my book Elitförband i Norden (Swedish fo...

In a few years no longer standard issue: the Swedish uniform system 90. The contract for a common uniform system for the Nordic states wi...

Replica runestone at Denmark´s perhaps best Viking museum: Kongernes Jelling. There have been some amazing Viking discoveries in recent ti...

The destroyer "Georg Thiele", part of the task force sent to Narvik - where she still is. On April 9, 1940 both Denmark and Nor...

Unofficial emblem of the Manhattan Project, circa 1946. Seldom has a TV series about WWII begun with the same slow pace as "Manhattan...

Tore Pryser´s magnificent book about German intelligence in the Nordic region. Norwegian Professor Tore Pryser´s so far probably most impo...

In 1914 we Swedes celebrated 100 years of peace, should we very soon celebrate the 200th anniversary, or ignore it? Journalists around the...

Russian Su-34 aircraft flew close to Sweden for the first time ever during the "Zapad" (West) drills in September. Looking b...

Wartime newsreel showing Hitler meeting Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelic. The latter made it to Argentina, hardly the former. The well...