Brievenroman over de Praagse schrijver Franz Kafka (1883-1924).

Analyse van de negatieve gevolgen die de industriële groei voor de mens heeft

Gedicht, geschreven en voorgelezen door Marion Bloem ter gelegenheid van de nationale herdenking bij het Indisch Monument in Den Haag op 13 augustus 2009

Overzicht in dagboekvorm van de politieke ontwikkelingen in Europa tijdens de laatste maand voor het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

In Nederland heeft historica Selma Leydesdorff een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij de introductie van de 'oral history', een methode in de geschiedenis die zich toelegt op het vastleggen van de mondelinge verhalen van individuele mensen. In 'De mensen en de woorden' brengt zij haar belangrijkste ervaringen op dit vlak van de afgelopen vijfentwintig jaar bij elkaar. Het boek beschrijft aldus de geschiedenis van de oral history in Nederland, maar is tevens een persoonlijk verslag van de manier waarop de auteur het vak is binnen gekomen via haar interesse voor de verborgen geschiedenis van vrouwen. Aan de hand van een breed onderzoek onder moslimvrouwen waarbij de auteur betrokken was, laat zij zien wat oral history in de praktijk betekent. Voor dit onderzoeksproject waren levensgeschiedenisinterviews gemaakt met vrouwen uit zes islamitische landen. In de interviews reflecteren de vrouwen over de veranderingen die zij in hun leven waargenomen hebben, en vertellen zij hoe zij de wereld waarin ze vroeger leefden vandaag ervaren. Het project is een illustratie van de manier waarop historici te werk gaan om op grond van levensgeschiedenissen en interviews met patronen en historische processen te zien.

A sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic, this is the authoritative biography of the warrior-statesman who was the greatest figure in Latin American history.

It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and never remarried (although he did have a succession of mistresses, including one who held up the revolution and another who saved his life), and he died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.

Drawing on a wealth of primary documents, novelist and journalist Marie Arana brilliantly captures early nineteenth-century South America and the explosive tensions that helped revolutionize Bolívar. In 1813 he launched a campaign for the independence of Colombia and Venezuela, commencing a dazzling career that would take him across the rugged terrain of South America, from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains. From his battlefield victories to his ill-fated marriage and legendary love affairs, Bolívar emerges as a man of many facets: fearless general, brilliant strategist, consummate diplomat, passionate abolitionist, gifted writer, and flawed politician. A major work of history, Bolívar colorfully portrays a dramatic life even as it explains the rivalries and complications that bedeviled Bolívar’s tragic last days. It is also a stirring declaration of what it means to be a South American.

De houding van de Duitse sociaal-democratische partij tegenover de revolutionaire tendenzen onder het Duitse volk.

Overzicht van de geschiedenis van Europa in de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw.

Analyse van decadentie, literatuur, kunst en cultuur. De hoogtepunten in beeldende kunst en literatuur kunnen volgens Paglia niet los gezien worden van de verhoudingen tussen de seksen. Zij beschouwt de Natuur en Sex als demonische krachten. Zij dicht feministen sentimentaliteit en 'wihsful thinking' toe waar het gaat om de oorzaken van verkrachting en onderzoekt de habitat van de moderne homoman.

Een gecultiveerde gehuwde, heimelijk homoseksuele Franse fabrieksdirecteur blikt terug op zijn inzet aan het Oostfront als SS-officier.

Dagboekaantekeningen van de Duitse schrijver over de politieke onlusten in München in 1919.

In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army--sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe --was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as "The Miracle of the Vistula," it remains one of the most crucial conflicts of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish and Russian sources, Norman Davies shows how this war was a pivotal event in the course of European history.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II

It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now, in The Guns at Last Light, he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe.

D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory.

With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson's accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.

One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

The SS Einsatzgruppen were the most notorious of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany. Under the leadership of the notorious Otto Ohlendorf they were responsible for the introduction of a regime of terror involving mass killings, primarily by shooting, in occupied territory of the Soviet Union during 1941 and 1942. Under the direction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the direct supervision of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich the Einsatzgruppen played the leading role in the implementation of the Final Solution in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, but they were also responsible for combatting partisans and eliminating Soviet political commissars, mental patients and Gypsies throughout Eastern Europe.

Otto Ohlendorf and the other SS Einsatzgruppen leaders were eventually brought to justice and the 1947 Einstazgruppen trial at Nuremburg bears his name. The trial provided a wealth of primary source documents and testimony which proved the guilt of the perpetrators, but also provided a frightening insight into just how closely the SS sponsored Einsatzgruppen had co-operated with the Wehrmacht and local populations.

Emmy AwardTM winning Author and historian Bob Carruthers has revisited and edited the primary source material from the trial to provide a new and chilling insight into the work of the Einsatzgruppen which draws frightening conclusions and blows away the myths with regard to the presumed lack of involvement on the part of the Wehrmacht. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in the true nature of the war on the Russian Front from primary sources.

Verhoren, voorafgaand aan het proces van Neurenberg 1945-1946.

"De Indonesische archipel heeft meer dan 450 jaar strijd geleverd tegen buitenlandse handelscompagnieën en mogendheden. Bijna altijd was er wel ergens oorlog, vaak op meer plaatsen tegelijk. Dit boek geeft een gedetailleerd overzicht van de honderden militaire acties en expedities. Portugezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen, Fransen, Japanners, en met name ook de Nederlanders, voerden hun koloniale oorlogen in de archipel vooral vanwege economisch gewin, volgens het devies van Jan Pieterszoon Coen: "Geen handel zonder oorlog". Hun legers vormden de ruggengraat van het koloniaal systeem, dat ook door tijdgenoten in Europa al bekritiseerd is. Door zijn brede aanpak en uitgebreide registers is het boek tevens een naslagwerk over de geschiedenis van Indonesië. Het laat zien hoe behalve vrijheidsdrang ook de islam een belangrijke rol speelde in het verzet tegen vreemde overheersers."

The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I--a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These internal and external struggles created anxiety in England, but by the end of Elizabeth's reign the nation had achieved a remarkable sense of political and religious identity. Penry Williams combines the political, religious and economic history of the nation with a broader analysis of English society, family relations, and culture, in order to explain the workings and development of the English state. The result is an incisive and wide-ranging analysis that culminates in an assessment of England's part in the shaping of the New World. 'It should hold its own for some time ... the best account for the serious reader' History Today

Gedetailleerde beschrijving van de verovering van Berlijn door de Russen in 1945.

Overzicht van het verloop van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog met een nadruk op het militaire aspect.

Een gecultiveerde gehuwde, heimelijk homoseksuele Franse fabrieksdirecteur blikt terug op zijn inzet aan het Oostfront als SS-officier.

WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern front was literally a campaign in which no prisoners were taken and no quarter was given.Although Hitler's decision to launch 'Barbarossa' was one of the crucial turning points of the war, at first the early successes of the German army pointed to the continuing triumph of the Nazi state. As time wore on, however, the Eastern front became a byword for death for the Germans - to be transferred to the front was the fate feared most by any member of Germany's armed forces.In "War without Garlands", Robert Kershaw examines the campaign largely through the eyes of the German forces who were sent to fight and die for Hitler's grandiose plans.

Overzicht in woord en beeld.