Journalistieke beschrijving van wat zich afspeelde aan het oostfront in de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Facetten uit het leven van concertpianiste Alice Herz-Sommer, overlevende van de Holocaust.

Geschiedenis van de Joegoslavische burgeroorlog in de jaren negentig.

Een Russische generaal komt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog voor een moeilijke keuze te staan.

"Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny's book so far stands unparalleled."--The New Republic

The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis--and the ensuing war--for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion.

When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The underlying causes go back to business left unfinished by both the Second and First World Wars.

In this acclaimed book, now revised and updated with a new chapter on the Dayton Accords and the subsequent U.S. involvement, Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the events that rekindled the violent conflict, a lucid and impartial analysis of the politics behind them, and incisive portraits of the main personalities involved.

Above all, he shows us the human realities behind the headlines, and puts in its true, historical context one of the most ferocious civil wars of our time.

In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity—one of the worst in world history—continues to be denied by the Japanese government.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents in four different languages (many never before published), Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, has written what will surely be the definitive, English-language history of this horrifying episode—one that the Japanese have tried for years to erase from public consciousness.The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it; of the Chinese civilians who endured it; and finally of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. It was Chang who discovered the diaries of the German leader of this rescue effort, John Rabe, whom she calls the “Oskar Schindler of China.” A loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler but far from the terror planned in his Nazi-controlled homeland, he worked tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter.But this book does more than just narrate details of an orgy of violence; it attempts to analyze the degree to which the Japanese imperial government and its militaristic culture fostered in the Japanese soldier a total disregard for human life.Finally, it tells one more shocking story: Despite the fact that the death toll at Nanking exceeded the immediate deaths from the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined (and even the total wartime casualty count of entire European countries), the Cold War led to a concerted effort on the part of the West and even the Chinese to court the loyalty of Japan and stifle open discussion of this atrocity. Indeed, Chang characterized this conspiracy of silence, which persists to this day, as “a second rape.”

The memorial and educational site House of the Wannsee Conference focuses on the antisemitic and racist ideology and politics of the perpetrators before and after 1933 as well as the role of different authorities in organizing the genocide during the war. Texts and photographs give examples of the actions of perpetrators and bystanders. The consequences of the crimes are apparent in the shattered lives of the Jewish victims.

Het verhaal van een Duits-joods meisje dat met haar familie tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog eerst in Westerbork en later in Bergen-Belsen terechtkwam, de oorlog overleefde en naar de Verenigde Staten emigreerde. Met zwart-witfoto's. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Dit boek, geïllustreerd met meer dan 120 kleurenfoto's, laat de bewapening zien van de land-, lucht- en zeemacht van de hoofdrolspelers in de Golfoorlog.

Een zevenjarig meisje gaat op zoek naar haar ouders. Aangrijpend verhaal uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Verslagen van een dertigtal risicovolle operaties van Britse militairen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Having survived the peculiar, almost fantastic childhood recorded in This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to a unit in the Mekong Delta. More or less innocent, self-deluded but rapidly growing less so, he fumbles his way through close shaves and foolish risks; for despite his impressive credentials as a paratrooper and former Green Beret, language-trained, he recognises in himself laughably little talent for the military life and no taste at all for the war.

Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think... and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!

Een rijke Joodse familie uit Berlijn vlucht als Hitler aan de macht komt naar Frankrijk en vervolgens met een valse identiteit naar Brazilië.

In woord en beeld wordt beschreven hoe zeven moderne oorlogen, van de Napoleontische oorlogen tot en met de Koude Oorlog, zijn ontstaan

De schrijver, medewerker van het Polemologisch instituut te Groningen, gaat in op de relatie tussen oorlog en maatschappij en de ontwikkeling van de bewapeningswedloop

The Crimean War combines an extraordinary oral and visual account of the Crimean War -- including many photographs and accounts never previously published. The history is told from eyewitness accounts from people on all sides of the conflict (British, French, Russian and Turkish) -- in the forms of letters and diaries of soldiers, sailors, doctors, artists, nurses and reporters. And as the Crimean War was the first war to be photographed and to which war artists were assigned, the book is heavily illustrated with striking images of war. The combination of art and personal accounts makes for an incredibly fascinating and original perspective on the events.