Lars Gyllenhaal

The most secret WWII Allied bases on Swedish territory are now being investigated by proper field research. Last week I had the privilege to...

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 ...

  You may have read several books about the Special Air Service, but what about the soldiers that are instantly recognized worldwide by a si...

Prewar missions over the UK and Poland; German airfields behind Soviet lines and a "Tatzelwurm" mission against Stalin himself - t...

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...

The story of the battle against the German V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket is more fascinating than I thought. The official history of this b...

If you are researching or wargaming Norway 1940 and/or Operation Claymore 1941, this book will be of great interest to you. Because in The B...

  You probably have read a number of books about Winston Churchill, and seen several films about him. There is now even a decent Churchill b...

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...

A great read about one of the most influential special operations officers of all time. His codename was actually “M” as Operations and Trai...

307 pages of German paratrooper biographies and personal photographs. From Norway to Crete, German WWII Fallschirmjägers i.e. paratroopers...

Yes, I am reviewing a comic book now! But, trust me - it is seriously good. Now, Churchill is one fellow that is very hard to summarize. W...

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

That strange gun on the cover is a Welrod, a British bolt action suppressed pistol. Having reviewed Nigel West´s Secret War: The Story Of ...

The front cover of the latest edition of this classic Third Reich source. For students of Germany´s WWII submarine warfare and the very la...

He fought in France, Norway, Tunisia, Italy and then from France to Germany. Not that many of the first British commandos managed to fight...

German troops march past the Norwegian parliament in 1940. PHOTO: Riksarkivet In a few months the 80th anniversary of the German invasion ...

Two Swedish divers have now released the first film of this Junkers Ju 52 at a depth of 75 metres. PHOTO: Simon Kenttä (who owns both this p...

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

Org. Todt chief Albert Speer (right) with General Eduard Dietl in the Arctic 1943. Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J16636 / CC-BY-SA 3.0...