In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions of innocent people. From the bestselling historian Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History draws on original British and German sources, including recorded interviews, as well as contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspapers. Its narrative focuses on the day-to-day experiences of the men and women in both countries trapped in this disastrous chain of events and not, as is so often the case, the elite. Their voices, concerns and experiences lend a uniquely intimate flavour to this often surprising account, revealing a marked disconnect between government and people; few ordinary citizens in either Britain or Germany wanted war. Precisely for that reason, 1939: A People's History is also an interrogation of our capacity to go to war again. In today's Europe, an onset of uncertainty, a looming fear of radical populism and a revelatory schism are dangerously reminiscent of the perils of the autumn of 1938. It is both a vivid and richly peopled narrative of Europe's slide into the horrors of war, a war that nobody wanted, and, in many ways, a warning; an opportunity for us to learn from our history and a reminder that we must never take peace for granted.

An assessment of how the United States dominant position may be effectively reconciled with the urgent need, in the 21st century, to achieve a new world order. Kissinger examines America's present and future relations with Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, and other areas in the world. He covers areas such as globilization, military intervention, free trade and the eroding of the planet's natural environment.

Informele gesprekken tussen twee senior-journalisten (NRC) over Nederland in de Koude Oorlog, de dekolonisatie en Europese eenwording.

Hoe zou de situatie in het door God aan de joden `beloofde land` zijn verlopen wanneer Gods belofte indertijd zou zijn begrepen? Dan zouden er in het `Heilig land`, Israël en Palestina geen oorlogen, bezettingen, en etnische zuiveringen zijn uitgevoerd. De Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens zou dan niet geschreven hoeven zijn. De huidige tragische overeenkomsten met de Tweede Wereldoorlog zouden we dan nu niet waar kunnen nemen. Zijn deze vragen en constateringen niet al te provocerend, nu we kunnen waarnemen hoe de Verenigde Naties worden gebruuskeerd in het streven naar rechtvaardigheid en vrede in deze wereld? Heft daarom de psalmist in de reeks psalmen vele malen dramatisch zijn handen ten hemel bij het zien van alle onrecht? Waarom werpt hij zich schreiend ter aarde en provoceert en tuchtigt de mens vele malen. Spreekt zich zeer vrijmoedig uit en looft vele malen de Almachtige, zoals in psalm 180, staande bij de Klaagmuur!

Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter�s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians � even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke�s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.

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Sociaal-wetenschappelijk proefschrift relevant voor hulpverlening (aan volwassenen), Kath. Univ. Nijmegen. Summary in English

When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea they would find themselves unravelling the true story of Jesus Christ and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus and his ultra-Jewish sect started to emerge, the authors came to the controversial conclusion that the key rituals of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the sect as a means of initiation into their community. Rigorously analyzing and comparing ancient Egyptian records, the Old and New Testaments, early Christian and rabbinical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the rituals of Freemasonry, the authors have been able to reconstruct the lost story of Jesus and his brother James and describe their struggle to establish the "kingdom of heaven" upon earth using Masonic-style rituals. The establishment of the Christian Church is shown to be a political invention that has little connection with the man we call "Christ."--Adapted from dust jacket

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Rusland is opgestaan als een wereldmacht en Poetin wil historische vergissingen herstellen. De Krim is de eerste correctie die is aangebracht. Alle gebieden buiten de grenzen van het huidige Rusland waar Russisch wordt gesproken zijn tot historische Russische grond verklaard. Van Oekraïne tot Novorossija, van het Balticum tot Kazachstan. Dit boek beschrijft de periode waarin Poetins Rusland via massale propaganda op een oorlogstraject is gezet. Een oorlog voornamelijk tegen zichzelf. De Rus heeft sinds Poetins herverkiezing in 2012 ingepeperd gekregen dat Rusland uniek is, zijn geschiedenis, zijn cultuur en de Rus zelf. Poetin eist ook van de wereld die unieke status te erkennen.

Het Belgische en Vlaamse verleden in de romantische boekillustraties

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This country`s most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy`s book is easily the best account of Europe`s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element` Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will help him. The West must stop them. If they fail, the world will go to war.

Richard Overy`s dramatic account re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of civilization.

Je kunt wel generaliserende aannames doen, maar zelf vind ik het nog altijd zinvoller om te horen wat mensen zelf te zeggen hebben", aldus journalist en wetenschapper Nikki Sterkenburg. Ze heeft altijd al een fascinatie gehad voor ontoegankelijke werelden, of het nu om die van bankiers, accountants (ook die hebben het nodige te verbergen), jihadisten of radicaal- en extreemrechtse activisten gaat. Sterkenburg wil weten wie zij zijn, wat hen beweegt en hoe ze te werk gaan. Zeker nu ze niet langer makkelijk te herkennen zijn aan een swastika (hakenkruis) op de arm, maar juist hun activisme combineren met een baan en een rijk sociaal leven buiten de beweging. 3 jaar lang volgt ze ruim veertig radicaal- en extreemrechtse activisten. Van nazi`s met wehrmachthelmen in de keuken tot de moskee-bezetters van Identitair Verzet en de oprichters van Erkenbrand. Ze bezoekt demonstraties, besloten bijeenkomsten en borrels en interviewt mensen thuis. "Maar dat mag je niet zeggen" is een beklemmend verslag waarbij je wordt geconfronteerd met de enge, radicale vooroordelen van anderen, maar ook met die van jezelf.

Begin dit jaar verscheen "Bloemen van het kwaad", een door Paul Damen verzorgde, meer dan 500 pagina's tellende bundeling van gedichten door 33 dictators, met telkens een toelichting en een korte biografie. Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, allemaal schreven ze gedichten. Te vaak vroegen lezers: moet Geert Wilders er niet bij, als dictator in de dop? Als definitief antwoord daarop nu, van dezelfde auteur, de bijlage "Gedachten over de Grote Geert", waarom Wilders wel of niet een dichtende dictator is.

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.

In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.

Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.

Beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de laatste weken van Adolf Hitlers leven.

Over de opkomst en heerschappij van Vladimir Poetin

September 1938. In power more than five years, Hitler unilaterally dismantled the Treaty of Versailles, provision by provision, daring Britain and France to stand up to him. Earlier that year, he forced Austria into his Third Reich without firing a single shot. Now his sights were set on Czechoslovakia.

It was in this dangerous climate that the first anti-Nazi coup was born. The plot was spearheaded by Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Oster, and its members included top German military leaders, the Berlin police, local troop commanders, civil authorities, religious leaders, and a group of resisters whose names have been wiped from the pages of history. Their mission was to kill Hitler and to overthrow the Nazi regime.

Using British and German sources and previously unknown documents in the Military History Institute of the U.S. Army War College, historian Terry Parssinen has documented this conspiracy. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this highly provocative work is narrative history at its best.

The Hitler who arrived in Vienna in 1907 was a young aspiring artist; the man who left six years later was a hate-filled dictator in the making, destined to plunge the world into war. Jones' look at Hitler's formative years provides a startling and insightful picture into the future Fuhrer, examining his career as an artist, his acquaintances, and his developing political beliefs. Jones also explores the Vienna of those fragile years before World War I, a home to an amazing array of artists, thinkers, and future leaders, including Sigmund Freud, composer Gustav Mahler, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Communist leader Leon Trotsky, painter Gustav Klimt, composer Arnold Schoenberg, and many others. In this remarkable setting, where the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were running out and suicide became a widespread trend, Jones shows how the tumultuous period left a significant mark on the young Hitler.

Annotation. No historical event has exerted more influence on Americas postWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger warAmerican presidents from Harry Truman through George W. Bush have relied on the Munich analogy not only to interpret perceived security threats but also to mobilize public opinion for military action. In The Specter of Munich, noted defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes an unconventional look at a disastrous chapter in Western diplomatic history. After identifying the complex considerations behind the Anglo-French appeasement of Hitler and the reasons for the policys failure, Record disputes the stock thesis that unchecked aggression always invites further aggression. He proceeds to identify other lessons of the 1930s more relevant to meeting todays U.S. foreign policy and security challenges. Among those lessons are the severe penalties that foreign policy miscalculation can incur, the constraints of public opinion in a modern democracy, and the virtue of consistency in threatening and using force. The Specter of Munichconcludes that though todays global political, military, and economic environment differs considerably from that of the 1930s, the United States is making some of the same strategic mistakes in its war on terrorism that the British and French made in their attempts to protect themselves against Nazi Germany. Not the least of these mistakes is the continued reliance on the specter of Adolf Hitler to interpret today's foreign security threats.