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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century.

High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.

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.

Examines the life of Spanish dictator General Franco

'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman

'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times

'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times

A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change.

The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe.

Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.

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

Verzameling interviews met bekende Nederlanders.

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

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

Columns en (in keerdruk) toespraken van de Vlaamse auteur (1958- ), veelal over actuele Belgische thema's.

Hij is de kern van de kleurrijke Heineken-geschiedenis, maar tegelijkertijd een grijze vlek: Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841-1893). Stichter van het gelijknamige bierimperium, grootvader van Freddy Heineken en drijvende kracht achter de economische en culturele wederopbloei van Amsterdam, die bekendstaat als de Tweede Gouden Eeuw. Toch is er maar weinig over hem bekend. Wie was deze man? En waarom werd hij bijna tot de vergetelheid veroordeeld? Annejet van der Zijl kreeg toegang tot de familiearchieven en reconstrueerde het inspirerende en uiteindelijk ook dramatische levensverhaal van een van de grootste industriëlen in de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Zij ontdekte een negentiende-eeuwse success story vol lef, daadkracht en passie, maar ook de schaduwzijde van al die voorspoed: afgunst, chantagepogingen en schandaal.

Auteur tekent de levensgeschiedenis op van haar moeder Hélène Egger (1929), die na jarenlang zwijgen besloot haar levensverhaal te vertellen, eerst aan haar familie, vanaf 2007 ook aan kinderen op scholen via haar gastsprekerschap voor Westerbork. Egger was een vrolijk meisje uit een joods gezin dat tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog haar twee broers en haar vader verloor, in Auschwitz en Sobibor. Egger overleefde de oorlog.

Ooggetuigenverslagen van Britse soldaten van het eerste jaar van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Memoirs of ten Jewish men and women (from the Netherlands, France, and Germany) on their experiences as children or adults during the Holocaust period, in hiding or in concentration camps, and on their postwar lives. Many members of their families perished. Some of the children were converted and had serious problems after the war in the attempt to rediscover their Jewish identity. Some adults chose to change their names and assimilate. also relates to postwar experiences of antisemitism in the Netherlands.

This book is a major critical study of the connections between the 'public' character of television and the various ways it works as communication. John Corner asks fundamental questions about the nature of what appears on the screen and how it variously engages, informs and entertains viewers. After setting out some of the distinctive features of the medium, illustrated by examples, the question of the likely and possible social and political consequences of these features is directly addressed. Chapters on the specific but changing forms of news, documentary and advertising provide a vivid and detailed analysis of some of television's most controversial ways of addressing the viewer as citizen and consumer.

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Biografie van een SS-er die bekend werd door een wereldberoemde foto genomen in het getto van Warschau. Hierop staat een jongetje met beide handen in de lucht, onder schot gehouden door een soldaat. 

Biografie van Josef Stalin (1879-1953) op basis van tot dusver geheime archiefstukken.

Richard M Watt's book unfolds the story of 1918-19, the fateful year that saw the tragedy of Germany, soon to become the tragedy of Europe. In 1918 came the brief moment when the victorious Allies at the Versailles Conference had the opportunity - by means of a peace with justice - to set up democracy in central Europe. The Kings Depart tells of their failure; of the Allies' rapacity which drove a ruined Germany to seek vengeance; of Germany's terrible collapse into anarchy and Red revolution and her even more frightful salvation at the hands of the army and the Freikorps; of the appearance of the swastika banner and right-wing terrorists and adventurers awaiting their Fuhrer.

Das Grundlagenwerk zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik Die Weimarer Republik gilt als erster Versuch Deutschlands, auf demokratischen Füßen zu stehen. Doch ihre Schöpfer schafftes es aus nationalpolitischen Rücksichten nicht, einen klaren strukturellen und moralischen Trennungsstrich zu den Verfechtern der alten Ordnung zu ziehen. Dem großen Historiker Hans Mommsen gelingt es, die komplizierten innen- und außenpolitischen Geschehnisse zu verdeutlichen und eine pointierte Darstellung zum Thema zu liefern.

Klappentext: Ab 1944 werden Tausende deutsche Kinder in Ostpreußen von ihren Familien getrennt - viele für immer. Gegen Hunger, Kälte und sowjetische Willkür führen sie einen Kampf um Leben und Tod. Auf sich allein gestellt, überleben diese sogenannten "Wolfskinder" in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Von litauischen Bauern gerettet, bleiben sie unter falscher Identität hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück. Nach jahrzehntelangem Schweigen erzählen sie erstmals von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit. Aber auch von Menschen, die ihnen den Weg in die Zukunft wiesen.