Ian van der Waag
@ianvanderwaag
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historian, author, speaker, trawler of archives, professor in defense & security @Rabdan, professor emeritus of military history @StellenboschUni
Joined May 2019
RT @SAHistSoc: In this new and open access article, @ianvanderwaag examines the experiences of South African soldiers interned in Italy and….
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More prisoners of war were captured during the Second World War than in any other war. Of the 70 million men and women that served in the land, sea, and air forces of the belligerent states, some 1...
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RT @k_koshelenko: Just finished reading «Botha, Smuts and the Great War» by Tony Garcia and Ian van der Waag. This story of leadership in….
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RT @mamboitaliano__: This is a King 👑!. The King of Spain 🇪🇸 today among the people risking lynchings, anger, and extreme gestures from tho….
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RT @TallbarFIN: Let's continue the threads about Finland's preparation for the threat of war and crisis situations. Next part is the Finni….
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RT @Tunisia_1943: The most incredible book about the 8th Army's negligence of rear base area logistics, written in 1966 by someone there in….
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Massively excited to see that the South Africa edition of our book is out! Thank you @JonathanBallPub.
Behind Botha’s charming façade and Smuts’s stoic machine, were two very human, imperfect men. Together they provide a wonderful lens through which to examine the potent forces of the early 20th-century world . Find out more here:
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RT @Helionbooks: #newblogpost .Professor Ian Van Der Waag, one of the authors of Botha, Smuts and the Great War 1914–1918 , writes a blog p….
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Tony Garcia and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book. Thank you @Helionbooks and Wolverhampton Military Press, for a wonderful job done! @GreatWarGroup @TheWFA @forum_military @worldwar
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RT @GregoryDaddis: Today's research find, in the form of a question: What's scarier than a bunch of US Army privates tooling around Germany….
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RT @jesse_history: Indian troops in German East Africa, WW1. Pretty cool viewpoint, I suppose the officer on the horse had a personal camer….
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RT @Wolfe321: My friend in South Africa told me they've become used to power outages for maybe 5 hours at a time — which is what Kyiv, on a….
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RT @noelle_cowling: It’s almost time for the #globaltechsummit 2022 #india - cannot wait! See registration details below.
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RT @mhptpodcast: Steph Hinnershitz traveled a rough road to the Nat'l WWII museum. Being a first gen. college student, academic job cuts, a….
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RT @SashoTodorov1: An interesting parallel to the initial invasion of Ukraine is the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia in 1914. An under-….
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RT @StephenClarkeNZ: Remember watching in Canberra the results of the last referendum on an Australian Republic in 1999 during a wonderful….
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The push for Australia to break away from the monarchy has gotten its best news in 25 years...
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Portions of the archives of the Netherlands Red Cross - relating to prisoners and intenees during the Second World War - have been opened.
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Oorlogsarchief Nederlandse Rode Kruis Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog kreeg het Nederlandse Rode Kruis de taak om mensen op te sporen en nabestaanden te informeren over hun lot. Het Oorlogsarchief van het...
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