This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

In early 1945, the Red Army plunged into the Third Reich from the east, rolling up territory and crushing virtually everything in its path, with one exception: the city of Breslau, which Hitler had declared a fortress-city, to be defended to the death. This book examines in detail the notorious four-month siege of Breslau.

• The first full-length English-language account of the bloody siege
• Chronicles the bitter struggle as the Red Army encircled Breslau and eventually pillaged the city, taking savage retribution on the survivors
• Details the brutal methods used by the city's Nazi leaders to keep German troops fighting and maintain order

Tom Buijtendorp geeft in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' duidelijkheid over Julius Caesars aanwezigheid in de Nederlanden, iets wat lange tijd in nevelen gehuld was. Julius Caesar sloeg een tijdlang met zijn legers kamp op in de Lage Landen en hij vocht veldslagen uit in deze regio, waarvan Caesar zelf dacht dat hij er gedood zou kunnen worden. Op basis van een reeks nieuwe ontdekkingen, zoals vondsten in een Karolingisch handschrift, een gezichtsreconstructie van Caesar in het RMO en rapporten van een Romeinse legerofficier, laat Buijtendorp in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' zien dat we de plaatsen waar Caesar in Nederland en België verbleef nu ook kunnen aanwijzen.

The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic identity, and of the social caste by whom it was defined and transmitted.

From the trashy to the epic, this guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic science fiction!

Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday reality.

After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders, but by their fellow citizens--sometimes neighbors, relatives, and former friends. The children who survived them vividly remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell their tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English, describe the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own miraculous survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020

'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary Supplement

From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities.

Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability.

In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.

Verslag op basis van egodocumenten van de laatste dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland, toen veel Duitse burgers zelfmoord pleegden uit wanhoop en ontreddering over de nederlaag van de nazi's.

Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's Year Zero and what came after. He describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, and the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life.

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death, and all three texts here are further illuminated by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Die "Globalisierung" führt heute jeder im Munde, aber was genau darunter zu verstehen ist, darüber herrscht vielfach Unklarheit. Jürgen Osterhammel, der seit seinem Bestseller Die Verwandlung der Welt zu den angesehensten Historikern unserer Zeit gehört, geht in diesem Band einer ubiquitären "Denkfigur" des 21. Jahrhunderts genauer auf den Grund und stellt die grundsätzliche Frage nach den Massstäben und Methoden einer Vorgeschichte der globalen Gegenwart. Wer die Vergangenheit verstehen will, der bedarf - wie die Essays dieser Sammlung höchst eindrucksvoll zeigen - der "Flughöhe der Adler": In seiner grossen Höhe hat er den weiten Überblick und behält dennoch die Details am Boden fest im Auge. (Quelle: www.buch.ch)

East Prussia 1945. Seven-year-old Liesabeth Otto lost her mother and siblings while fleeing the Red Army. Alone she wanders through the forests and ends up in the neighboring Baltic States in search of food and shelter. She struggled for years under incredible privation, always on the lookout for Soviet henchmen. A harrowing fate, at the same time a panorama of German-Soviet post-war history.

The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon increased by others who were eager for a way out of imprisonment—including men who had been convicted of burglary, assault, murder, and rape.

Under the leadership of Oskar Dirlewanger, a convicted rapist and alcoholic, they could do as they pleased: there were no repercussions for even their worst behavior. This was the group used for its special “talents” to help put down the Jewish uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, killing an estimated 35,000 men, women, and children in a single day. Even by Nazi standards, the brigade was considered unduly violent and an investigation of its activities was opened. The Nazi hierarchy was eager to distance itself from the behavior of the brigade and eventually exiled many of the members to Belarus. Based on the archives from Germany, Poland, and Russia, The SS Dirlewanger Brigade offers an unprecedented look at one of the darkest chapters of World War II.

Zusammenfassung: De geschiedenis van rechts terreur in Duitsland begon niet met de opkomst van de nationaalsocialisten, maar met een samenzwering tegen de Duitse democratie en een bloedige reeks moorden precies honderd jaar geleden. De daders in de vroege Weimarrepubliek hadden dezelfde motieven, wrok en doelen als de rechtse terroristen van nu. Hun dodelijke vastberadenheid was gebaseerd op sociaal milieu en emotie, op structeren en netwerken die overal mogelijk zijn en nooit helemaal zijn verdwenen. In De wraak van de verliezers legt Florian Huber parallellen tussen rechts terreur in de vroege Weimarrepubliek en het rechts-terrorisme van nu. Een spannend verhaal dat uitmondt in de spectaculaire moord op Walther Rathenau, de Duitse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, waarmee Huber laat zien dat de geschiedenis zich nu herhaalt - of dat de aantrekkingskracht rechts-terrorisme wellicht nooit echt is afgenomen. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

From October 1944 to April 1945 the Red Army fought a bloody campaign to destroy the German Army in East Prussia, and capture the capital of the province, Konigsberg. This book follows the course of one of historys forgotten battles, the fall of the city of Konigsberg. It covers in detail the desperate battles the Germans fought to hold off the Red Army, from the Soviet Memel and Gumbinnen Offensives of October 1944, which saw Russian soldiers break into the frontier districts of East Prussia, to the final stand of the German defenders of Konigsberg in April 1945. The German generals, Erhard Raus of the Third Panzer Army and Otto Lasch of Fortress Konigsberg were faced by enemies both external and internal. Their struggle to defend the city after the great Soviet offensive of January 1945 was hampered by the activities of the malevolent Gauleiter Erich Koch, and the obstinate refusal of Hitler to countenance any operation flexibility. Drawing on primary sources, The Battle of Konigsberg recounts the terrible story of these campaigns both German and Soviet perspectives. Referring to the records of the commanders who fought these battles, it provides a unique in-depth study of the forgotten last stand, of the fall of Fortress Konigsberg.

"This engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula."—Historian

Dood, liefde en sex zijn de elementen die het leven van een jonge schilder bepalen.

Een dag in het leven van een oud-verzetstrijder voor wie het bestaan uitzichtloos is geworden.

De ontmoeting met een mysterieuze jonge vrouw brengt een man in een verwarrende situatie.

In Nazareth aan het begin van onze jaartelling wordt Jozef, de vader van Jezus, ten onrechte beschuldigd van moord op een vooraanstaande stadsgenoot en dreigt gekruisigd te worden.

Keuze uit de poëzie van de Duitse literator (1797-1856).

Tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog gaan vier mannen op weg om een belangrijke tegenstander te doden.

Therapeutische adviezen ten behoeve van het aanleren van ander gedrag.

De komst van een 14-jarige jongen sticht grote onrust bij een schelpen verzamelend echtpaar.

Autobiografisch getint relaas over de getraumatiseerde vader van de schrijver en zijn jonggestorven zoontje

Dagboek van de Nederlandse dichter (1970- ) over de zomer 2001.