In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But as the powers of Europe slid inexorably toward war, the Middle East could not escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Great War spelled the end of the Ottomans, unleashing powerful forces that would forever change the face of the Middle East. Here, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the making of the modern Middle East.--From publisher description.

The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended- a new republic was born.
Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland's history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical - but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.

'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...' The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded.

The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense dark age has long been viewed as inadequate by many historians. How could a world still so profoundly shaped by Rome and which encompassed such remarkable societies as the Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian empires, be anything other than central to the development of European history? How could a world of so many peoples, whether expanding, moving or stable, of Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, whose genetic and linguistic inheritors we all are, not lie at the heart of how we understand ourselves?

The Inheritance of Rome is a work of remarkable scope and ambition. Drawing on a wealth of new material, it is a book which will transform its many readers ideas about the crucible in which Europe would in the end be created. From the collapse of the Roman imperial system to the establishment of the new European dynastic states, perhaps this book`s most striking achievement is to make sense of an immensely long period of time, experienced by many generations of Europeans, and which, while it certainly included catastrophic invasions and turbulence, also contained long periods of continuity and achievement.

From Ireland to Constantinople, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, this is a genuinely Europe-wide history of a new kind, with something surprising or arresting on every page.

Van alle vormen van etnisch en raciaal vooroordeel heeft het antisemitisme verreweg de langste geschiedenis. Al in de Oudheid gaven de eerste christenen de Joden de schuld van Jezus’ kruisiging. In de Middeleeuwen kwamen daar nieuwe beschuldigingen bij zoals woeker, hostieschending, vergiftiging van bronnen en deelname aan samenzweringen tegen het christendom. Later ging men de Joden zien als een vijandig ras dat een bedreiging vormde voor de raszuiverheid van de Europeanen. In het middeleeuwse West-Europa vonden ook de eerste Jodenvervolgingen plaats. En het waren West-Europeanen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog plannen smeedden om de Joden uit te moorden. Daarom gaat dit boek vooral over antisemitisme in West-Europa. In ieder tijdvak werden er nieuwe vooroordelen toegevoegd aan het anti-Joodse beeld zonder dat daarbij de oudere vooroordelen verdwenen. En zo, laat Chris Quispel op indringende wijze zien, is het antisemitisme door de eeuwen heen blijven bestaan.

Genomineerd (longlist) voor de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2016.

Inleiding tot de joodse geloofswereld.

Hanneli en Anne zijn hartsvriendinnen, maar alles verandert als de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbreekt. Het levensverhaal van Hanneli Goslar, de Amsterdamse vriendin van Anne Frank. Met enige zwart-witfoto's.

In 'De zussen Van Gogh' haalt kunsthistoricus Willem-Jan Verlinden de drie dochters van de familie Van Gogh uit de schaduw van hun broers Vincent en Theo, en schetst een fascinerend tijdsbeeld van de turbulente ontwikkelingen tijdens de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw en het fin de siècle. Het verhaal van de zussen Anna, Lies en Wil van Gogh is nooit eerder verteld. Ze groeiden op in een tijd dat er voor het eerst lange afstanden met de trein konden worden afgelegd, 'impressionist' nog een spotnaam was, de vrouwenbeweging net in de kinderschoenen stond en dromers van allerlei politieke gezindten op de barricades stonden om de revolutie af te kondigen. Willem-Jan Verlinden brengt de aspiraties, dromen, teleurstellingen en het verdriet van de drie zussen Van Gogh prachtig in beeld en geeft een unieke inkijk in een bijzonder gezin tegen de achtergrond van een wereld die in rap tempo veranderde.

Beschrijving van de oorlogsgeschiedenis van een welgestelde Nederlands-Duits-Baltische familie in de twintigste eeuw.

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

Studie over de achtergronden van het schilderij van Pablo Picasso.

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.

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.

5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'.It was also one of the most bloody, characterised by hideous excess and outrageous atrocities. The battle concluded with Germany having incurred nearly three million dead and the Soviet Union a staggering ten million. It was a monumental and decisive encounter of breathtaking intensity which became a turning point, not only on the Eastern Front, but in the Second World War as a whole. Using the very latest available archival material including the testimonies of veterans and providing strategic perspective alongside personal stories of front line fighting, Lloyd Clark has written a lucid, enthralling and heart-stopping account of this incredible battle.

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.

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.