Een straatarme jood verbergt zich in Praag voor de nazi-terreur.

"Hoe verschrikkelijk de jodenvervolging was, hebben talloze geschiedenisboeken, egodocumenten en historische romans ons geprobeerd duidelijk te maken. Maar je werkelijk voorstellen wat het betekent uit je huis te worden gehaald, alles achter te moeten laten, niet te weten of je ooit weer thuis zult komen, mensen om je heen te zien verdwijnen, te leven in voortdurende angst - dat gaat toch nog altijd ons voorstellingsvermogen te boven. In 'Vandaag' laat Pauline Micheels op nuchtere en tegelijk indringende wijze het leven ervaren in het doorgangskamp Westerbork, het laatste 'station' van de joden in Nederland. Zij verwerkt daarin de verhalen die in haar familie de ronde deden, maar ook de kennis die zij vergaarde tijdens jarenlang historisch onderzoek. In deze beklemmende oorlogsnovelle volgen we het dagelijks leven in het kamp via dagboekaantekeningen van een bijna twaalfjarige jongen. Een leven dat voor de kinderen schijnbaar gewoon doorging."--Back cover.

Bloemlezing van dagboek(fragment)en, geschreven door jongeren uit heel Europa tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Practisch handboek der Bijenteelt. Met vele afbeeldingen en een aanhangsel

Bevat 368 pagina's met gedetailleerde tekeningen van uiteenlopende onderwerpen of situaties, met op de tegenoverliggende pagina de Italiaanse benaming van de onderdelen. Met daarachter een indice analitco van 134 pag. om bij de juiste pagina te komen en een 112 pag. lange index in het Duits. Umfassende Darstellung der Dinge unsere Umwelt in Wort und Bild. Bevat 25.000 steekwoorden.   

The autobiography of Britain's greatest climber - for the first time in one volume. Containing: I choose to climb, The next horizon [and] The Everest years

De 12-jarige Karel beleeft met zijn vrienden tijdens de hongerwinter een aantal spannende maanden. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Illustrations Photographiques de Roger Schall. Cet exemplaire porte le numero Br, 362 [1000]

Prominente vrouwen uit de omgeving van keizer Karel V (1500-1558), zoals zijn grootmoeder, zuster, tante en echtgenote, die hem adviseerden en assisteerden.

Leo Rosten has created a sweeping survey of that delicious amalgam of Yiddish and English that has made such an enormous impact wherever English is spoken or understood.

In spring 1945, the Red Army entered Berlin. Not far from the Reichs Chancellery was the Berlin Zoo with an anti-aircraft tower. Inside were crates containing Heinrich Schliemann's famed collection of gold from the lost city of Troy, King Priam's riches - gold diadems with leaf and flower pendants, gold bottles, gold earrings and 9000 gold rings and buttons - one of the most complete and valuable finds ever made by an archaeologist. On June 3rd the crates were despatched to Moscow by military aircraft. And there they and their contents vanished.

Thematisch verbonden verhalen over mensen in een wurgende eenzaamheid, met een belast verleden, die liefde gemist hebben of door ziekte en dood bezocht zijn en die toewerken naar een kantelmoment waarin een impuls gevolgd wordt of een beslissing genomen.

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west's last chance for survival. Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.

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.

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the East, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. Using previously unpublished archival records, David Stahel presents a new history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

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.