Verslag van de zoektocht naar het vooroorlogse Poolse stadje Nasielsk, dat de grootvader van de Amerikaanse auteur tijdens een vakantie in 1938 op film vastlegde.

When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city a pearl to which he would give a proper setting. But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik. Proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today, Weyr concludes, only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless.This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler, those who resisted, and the many who merely, in the local phrase, "ran after the rabbit." The author draws on his own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, and those of his parents and friends, plus extensive documentary research, to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin's response was even more astonishing. During the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands.
Drawing on a wealth of newly available documents, from classified Politburo papers and diaries of key generals to diplomatic cables and secret police memos, the Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov paints a startling portrait of Stalin, one of history's most feared despots, as a vulnerable and paralyzed leader. Refusing to believe that the Germans would strike first, despite repeated warnings, he continued to supply them with war materials in the days before the attack, then tied his generals' hands in the crucial first hours of the invasion. For more than a week, while Hitler rolled over Soviet territory, Stalin cowered in his dacha, leaving the country rudderless and -- as Pleshakov reveals here -- nearly losing power. The Red Army's effort to regain the territory lost in those first ten days cost more than 10 million Soviet lives.
Stalin's Folly is a dramatic hour-by-hour account that sheds light on an enigmatic and ruthless figure while providing a new and far deeper understanding of Russian history.

“Europe is a molehill….” Everything here is worn out…tiny Europe has not enough to offer. We must set off for the Orient; that is where all the greatest glory is to be achieved.”—Napoleon Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was the first Western attack in modern times on a Middle Eastern country. In this remarkably rich and eminently readable historical account, acclaimed author Paul Strathern reconstructs a mission of conquest inspired by glory, executed in haste, and bound for disaster. In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, only twenty-eight, mounted the most audacious military campaign of his already spectacular career. With 335 ships, 40,000 soldiers, and a collection of scholars, artists, scientists, and inventors, he set sail for Egypt to establish an Eastern empire in emulation of Alexander the Great. Like everything Napoleon ever attempted, it was a plan marked by unquenchable ambition, heroic romanticism, and not a little madness. Napoleon saw himself as a liberator, freeing the Egyptians from the oppression of their Mameluke overlords. But while Napoleon thought his army would be welcomed as heroes, he tragically misunderstood Muslim culture and grossly overestimated the “gratitude” he could expect from those he’d come to save. Instead Napoleon and his men would face a grim war of attrition against an ad hoc army of Muslims led by the feared Murad Bey. Marching across seemingly endless deserts in the shadow of the pyramids, suffering extremes of heat and thirst, and pushed to the limits of human endurance, they would be plagued by mirages, suicides, and the constant threat of ambush. A crusade begun in honor and intended for glory would degenerate toward chaos and atrocity. But Napoleon’s grand failure in Egypt also yielded vast treasures of knowledge about a culture largely lost to the West, and through the recovery of artifacts like the Rosetta Stone, it prepared the way for the translation of hieroglyphics and modern Egyptology. And it tempered the complex leader who believed it his destiny to conquer the world. A story of war, adventure, politics, and a clash of cultures, Paul Strathern’sNapoleon in Egyptis history at once relevant and impossible to put down. From the Hardcover edition.

The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. Based on unrivalled access to all the key politicians and their advisors - including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Nigel Farage and Dominic Cummings, the mastermind of Vote Leave - Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, and offers a gripping, day-by-day account of what really happened behind-the-scenes in Downing Street, both Leave campaigns, the Labour Party, Ukip and Britain Stronger in Europe. Shipman gives his readers a ringside seat on how decisions were made, mistakes justified and betrayals perpetrated. Filled with stories, anecdotes and juicy leaks the book does not seek to address the rights and wrongs of Brexit but to explore how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life and explain why he lost. This is a story of calculation, attempted coups, individuals torn between principles and loyalty. All the events are here - from David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum, through to the campaign itself, his resignation as prime minister, the betrayals and rivalries that occurred during the race to find his successor to the arrival of Theresa May in Downing Street as Britain's second female prime minister. All Out War is a book about leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make and how and why they make them, as well as how they feel when they turn out to be wrong. It is about men who make decisions that are intellectually consistent and - by their own measure - morally sound that are simultaneously disastrous for themselves and those closest to them. It is about how doing what you know has worked before doesn't always work again. Most of all it is about asking the question: how far are you prepared to go to win?

A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time.

Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—loom with gathering intensity. Government revenues alone cannot solve the problem, but a solution must be found. In this book George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven take a practical—and optimistic—look at the issues at hand, offering an agenda for reform that will make these essential programs solvent. Drawing on a trove of original research, they take stock of the current situation, consider plans on offer from major thinkers in the field, and chart a course toward a system that provides income for the elderly and universal access to health care in ways that are fiscally sound. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to make an informed decision about the country's future.

An hour-by-hour account of Flight 007 which was shot down by a Russian interceptor killing all 269 passengers and crew on board the Korean jet.

We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operational more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s.

Dwepen met linkse dictators en de vredesbeweging met al hun goede bedoelingen, waren die niet net zo fout als Joseph Luns? 

This history of Belgium and the Netherlands is the first major study in English to treat them as nations in their own right, while placing them in a wider European and world context.

Journalistieke analyse van de opkomst en ondergang van Pim Fortuyn en zijn partij LPF.

Verslag van de speurtocht van de auteur naar zijn familie.

Oor- en ooggetuigen van de holocaust

Persoonlijke ervaringen van een Poolse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews

Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust.

Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of World War II's bloodiest chapters. Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"[T]his modest Roman Catholic priest from Paris, without using much more than his calm voice and Roman collar, has shattered the silence surrounding a largely untold chapter of the Holocaust." --The Chicago Tribune

Korte levensbeschrijving van Karel de Grote (742-814) door een van zijn meest geliefde raadslieden.

Boek of brandstapel is geen vrolijk, maar wel een rijk boek. Oorlogen, opstanden en veroveringen met geweld waren er genoeg. Levendige verhalen worden aangevuld met boeiende informatieve teksten. De gravures en vooral de kleurige illustraties, vaak paginagroot, geven de historische figuren een gezicht. Een verademing voor jongeren vanaf 12 jaar die op een verfrissende manier kennis willen maken met de geschiedenis. Ook scholen kunnen er natuurlijk hun voordeel mee doen. Achterin o.a. een kaart van Europa in 1648. Best een belangrijk boek. 

Op 27 januari 2020 is het precies vijfenzeventig jaar geleden dat het concentratiekamp Auschwitz bevrijd werd. Veel ooggetuigen, mensen die het kamp hebben overleefd, zijn inmiddels overleden. Speciaal voor deze nagedachtenis verzamelde Arnon Grunberg teksten die getuigen van het vernietigingskamp en de ontmenselijking, van Primo Levi s vlak na de bevrijding geschreven 'Is dit een mens' en het onbekendere, aangrijpende werk van Tadeusz Borowski tot aan het in 2015 gepubliceerde dagboek 'Zolang er nog tranen zijn' van Hannelore Grünberg-Klein, zijn moeder, Auschwitz-overlevende. In zijn essay dat aan de bloemlezing voorafgaat betoogt Grunberg dat de poging van de nazi s een heel volk te vernietigen erfgoed is dat onze cultuur en ons mensbeeld drastisch heeft gewijzigd. De getuigenissen stellen de vraag wat literatuur vermag op scherp en gaan altijd ook over onze wereld en onze demonen.

Studie over de Duitse razzia op het Veluwse dorp Putten in de herfst van 1944 en over de nationale herinnering daaraan sinds het einde van de oorlog.

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans and Russians enthusiastically supported them and the values they stood for. In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together? He paints a remarkable and vivid account of the different ways in which Stalin and Hitler rose to power, and abused and dominated their people. It is a chilling analysis of powerful ideals corrupted by the vanity of ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Raad (1941-1943) en vooral van de voorzitters, waarbij met name morele en ethische vragen rond hun optreden behandeld worden.

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Speurtocht naar de reden waarom tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog zoveel joden uit Nederland zijn omgebracht in de concentratiekampen.

Onderzoek in hoeverre de beeldvorming over het niet weten van de jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, bepaald door o.a. L. de Jong en J. Presser, op waarheid berust.

Nu standbeelden sneuvelen en ons koloniale verleden opnieuw tegen het licht wordt gehouden, is het hoog tijd om een bezem door de koloniale letteren te halen. Want wat moeten en mogen we nog lezen uit die besmette canon? Wie is het lezen nog waard, wie moeten we van de canonieke sokkel trekken? 0Na 'De nieuwe feministische leeslijst' en 'Jongens waren we' werpt 'De Groene Amsterdammer' een frisse blik op de literatuur over ons koloniale heden en verleden. Met bijdragen van onder anderen Alfred Schaffer, Maaike Meijer. Alfred Birney, Marja Pruis, Warda El-Kaddouri, Manon Uphoff, Gloria Wekker, Joost de Vries en Theodor Holman.

In 'Rusland in oorlog deel 1 (september 2013 – juli 2014)' hebben we laten zien hoe president Vladimir Poetin binnen een jaar de gijzelaar werd van zijn eigen propagandamachine. De ambities van de president erkenning te zoeken voor de status van Rusland als wereldmacht heeft al vele duizenden doden geëist in wat hij noemt Novorossija, het nieuwe Rusland, en wat de wereld ziet als twee oostelijke provincies van de soevereine staat Oekraïne. De Russische burger leeft verder in een op hol geslagen staatsmachine die dagelijks een lawine van haat uitspuwt tegen het Westen. De Koude Oorlog Poetin-stijl heeft gevaarlijke warme trekjes gekregen kunnen we in dit deel 2 laten zien. Ondertussen wordt onderzocht wie het toestel van MH17 op 17 juli 2014 met 298 passagiers onder wie 196 Nederlanders met een Bukraket heeft neergehaald. Sterke vermoedens wijzen in de richting van de door Rusland gesteunde separatisten.