Letters

Eric Lee’s article The Fight to the End... and Beyond (June) was highly informative, casting light on what was in Britain, until now, a largely unknown Second World War event – the battle of Texel. This battle, which ended on 20 May 1945, was the Nazis’ last battle. But was it the last battle of the Second World War in Europe?

I am aware that, at Odzak in BosniaHerzegovina, a fierce battle took place, which started on 19 April 1945 and finally ended on 25 May 1945, 17 days after

VE Day. It was fought between members of the Croatian Ustashe (which had collaborated with the Nazis during the war) and Tito’s Yugoslav Partisans, the latter of which eventually won.

Meanwhile, the last German surrender in Europe occurred on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic region four months after VE Day. On 4 September 1945, German soldiers, who had set up a meteorological station on Svalbard, surrendered to Norwegian seal hunters, having lived and worked in their isolated post for a year. Anindya Kundu, Hornchurch

We reward the Letter of the Month writer with a copy of a new history book. This issue, that is Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for France by hames folland. gt was selected as one of our summer reading picks. See page 7S