De eerste volledige en authentieke geschiedenis van ontstaan en gevolgen van het Stalinisme

Bundel essays over een breed scala aan onderwerpen waarover de historicus (1943) zijn veelal non-conformistische meningen uit.

Het levensverhaal van het West-Afrikaanse meisje Aminata Diallo, dat in 1755 als 11-jarige door slavenhandelaars naar Amerika gehaald wordt, maar uitgroeit tot een icoon van de anti-slavernij-beweging.

Beschouwingen en columns over het veranderende politieke klimaat, mede na de moord op Theo van Gogh op 2 november 2004.

De geschiedenis en de rol van Kurt Waldheim (oud-secretaris-generaal van de VN en president van Oostenrijk) voor, tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Verzameling columns over het leven in de culturele wereld van New York in de jaren zeventig en tachtig.

Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy, even ninety years on, detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. Throughout the letters, Harry's tone is unwaveringly stoical, uncomplaining and good humoured. Letters From The Trenches is a fitting tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War who fought and endured and returned home, and the one in six who did not. The letters describe the war through the eyes of those who really lived it, bringing the horrors and triumphs to life for the twenty-first-century reader. Edited by Harry's grandson, Bill, Letters From The Trenches tells the moving story of a brave, selfless and honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him, and still came up smiling.

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

Biografie van de Nederlandse koningin (1880-1962) vanaf haar geboorte tot het einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Weergave van opgenomen geluidsmateriaal waarin geïnterviewde soldaten en burgers hun directe ervaringen in de Eerste Wereldoorlog beschrijven.

Tweede deel van de biografie over Koningin Wilhelmina, voorafgegaan aan : Wilhelmina - de Jonge Koningin. Aandacht voor haar leven tijdens de Tweede wereldoorlog, haar ballingschap in Engeland, haar brieven aan Prinses Juliana, haar reizen en politieke bemoeienissen.

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

Deg eheime geschiedenis van de CIA en de regering Bush

Geschiedenis van de Joegoslavische burgeroorlog in de jaren negentig.

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

Analyse van het volkskarakter en de identiteit van de Nederlanders in heden en verleden.

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.