In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler’s chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap (and, perhaps, kill) Pope Pius XII. At the same time plans were being made to deport Rome’s Jews to Auschwitz, Wolff began playing a dangerous game: stalling Hitler’s plot against the pope, whom he hoped would save him from the noose in case Germany lost the war. To save Pius, Wolff and fellow conspirators blackmailed him into silence when the Jews were rounded up, hoping that Hitler would rescind his order. This tale of intrigue and betrayal is one of the most important untold stories of World War II. Dan Kurzman was the first journalist to have interviewed General Wolff following his release from prison after the war. And this is the only book to tell the full behind-the-scenes story of the plot against the Vatican and its far-reaching consequences.

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.

In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground in which Nazism's ideology of hatred could take root.

The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reichis a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.

Vanuit het perspectief van een 13-jarige jongen, die met zijn vrienden een verhaal rondom de berichten over de Rote Armee Fraktion fantaseert, wordt het leven in de jaren zestig en zeventig in Duitsland beschreven.

Onderzoek naar de rol van de Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.

Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."

Hoewel het meer dan 65 jaar geleden is dat er een einde kwam aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog, speelt die nog steeds een onuitwisbare rol in ons nationaal bewustzijn.
Met Dat nooit meer schreef Chris van der Heijden een cultuurgeschiedenis van Nederland met als centrale vraagstuk de verwerking van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
In dit omvangrijke boek staan voor het eerst alle grote verhalen op een rij: het verhaal van het aanvankelijke optimisme, de teleurstelling van Wilhelmina, het gevecht van de kranten om papier en prestige, de grote naoorlogse affaires (Weinreb, Menten, Aantjes), de tweedeling tussen goed en 'fout', tot de rol van de Shoah en het verhaal van Anne Frank.
Met Grijs verleden was Van der Heijden al verantwoordelijk voor een van de belangrijkste veranderingen in het denken over de oorlog, dit boek is het logische en omvattende vervolg ervan.
'Grijs Verleden is zonder twijfel een van de belangrijkste boeken over Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de laatste jaren.' - HANS BLOM
'Van der Heijden weet ontzaglijk veel van de periode, en hij vertelt in Zwarte renaissance graag en meeslepend.' - JAN BLOKKER

Armeense ballingen bevinden zich op de vreemdste plaatsen: als monnik in Venetie, appelboer in Syrie, briljant wiskundige in Bulgarije of als priester in een dorpje in Transsylvanie. Philip Marsden raakte gefascineerd door dit verscheurde volk en maakte een reis langs talrijke ontheemde Armenen, om ten slotte aan te komen in Armenie zelf, een republiek in de schaduw van de berg Ararat.
Zijn boek is niet alleen het verslag van die reis langs de hedendaagse Armenen, maar ook van de tragische geschiedenis van een volk dat eigenlijk niet mocht overleven. De Armenen hebben geleden onder de strijd tussen keizerrijken, godsdiensten en ideologie Tot op de dag van vandaag worden ze bedreigd door schijnbaar onafwendbaar geweld.

Nederlandse premiejagersop zoek naar joden 

Essay over godsdienstvrijheid, waarin ervoor wordt gepleit om deze drastisch uit te breiden, zowel in Nederland als elders in de wereld.

Autobiografisch relaas van de enige overlevende van een transport vanuit Westerbork in 1943.

"Marcus Tullius Cicero (pron.: /ssro/; Classical Latin: [marks tul.ljs kkro?]; 3 January 106 BC? 7 December 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists."--Wikipedia.

Tweehonderd jaar eerste kamer. De laatste 25 jaar in het vizier. (1990-2015)

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.

"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."
-- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review

"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument."
-- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic

"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review

"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books

"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing."
-- Newsweek

"House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump's inauguration as president of the United States. That moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin's long mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that began more than thirty years ago, when the Russian Mafia first targeted Trump properties to launder money, and led to Putin's oligarchs and Mafia kingpins rescuing Trump from a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino bankruptcies in Atlantic City. This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence. To most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did not end in 1991--that it merely evolved, with Trump's apartments offering the perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the collapsing Soviet Union. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia. He traces Donald Trump's sordid ascent from foundering real estate tycoon to the highest office in the land. He traces Russia's phoenixlike rise from the ashes of the post-Cold War Soviet Union as well as its ceaseless covert efforts to retaliate against the West and reclaim its status as a global superpower. Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component in its attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without Russia, Trump would not be president. This essential book is crucial to understanding the real powers at play in the shadows of today's world."--Jacket

Den kendte militæranalytikkers gennemgang af 1. verdenskrig

"Het wonder van Rotterdam' is een prachtig geïllustreerd boek waarin Nelleke Noordervliet herinneringen ophaalt aan de stad van haar jeugd. Ze maakt een wandeling langs de adressen waar ze tussen 1945 en 1963 heeft gewoond: Nieuwe Boezemstraat, Insulindestraat en Coolhaven, en komt op basis daarvan tot een persoonlijke beschouwing over 'the sense of belonging'. Noordervliet gaat terug naar het bombardement op Rotterdam, dat haar eigen familie van nabij heeft meegemaakt. Hoe kunnen we deze pijnlijke geschiedenis blijven herdenken? Ze brengt een ode aan de gewone Rotterdammer die direct na de oorlog - de jaren van haar vroege jeugd - zijn mouwen opstroopte en aan de slag ging. Hier kiest ze doelbewust voor de vorm van een verhalend gedicht, omdat die gewone Rotterdammer niet direct poëtisch lijkt, maar wel degelijk poëzie verdient. Vervolgens blikt ze terug op haar middelbare-schooltijd op het katholieke meisjeslyceum Maria Virgo, een periode waarin ze zich ontwikkelde van een verlegen meisje tot een jonge vrouw met belangstelling voor geschiedenis en literatuur. De novelle 'Miss Blanche' vormt het intrigerende sluitstuk van dit boek. De hoofdpersoon H.H. Wedigh is een Rotterdamse sigarenboer van de oude stempel, iemand die zo lijkt te zijn weggelopen uit de jaren vijftig. Hij moet zijn weg zien te vinden in een nieuwe, multiculturele wereld."--Provided by vendor.

The new book from Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today 'Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ... Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has explained us to ourselves' Spectator This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think. The roots of liberalism - belief in individual liberty, in the fundamental moral equality of individuals, that equality should be the basis of a legal system and that only a representative form of government is fitting for such a society - all these, Siedentop argues, were pioneered by Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages, who drew on the moral revolution carried out by the early church. It was the arguments of canon lawyers, theologians and philosophers from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, rather than the Renaissance, that laid the foundation for liberal democracy. There are large parts of the world where other beliefs flourish - fundamentalist Islam, which denies the equality of women and is often ambiguous about individual rights and representative institutions; quasi-capitalist China, where a form of utilitarianism enshrines state interests even at the expense of justice and liberty. Such beliefs may foster populist forms of democracy. But they are not liberal. In the face of these challenges, Siedentop urges that understanding the origins of our own liberal ideas is more than ever an important part of knowing who we are. LARRY SIEDENTOP was appointed to the first post in intellectual history ever established in Britain, at Sussex University in the 1970's. From there he moved to Oxford, becoming Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought and a Fellow of Keble College. His writings include a study of Tocqueville, an edition of Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe, and Democracy in Europe, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Siedentop was made CBE in 2004. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK 'One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years ... a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking' John Gray, Literary Review 'A brave, brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition' Paul Lay, History Today 'An engrossing book of ideas ... illuminating, beautifully written and rigorously argued' Kenan Malik, Independent 'A most impressive work of philosophical history' Robert Skidelsky

Relaas over de Eerste Wereldoorlog vanuit de optiek van enkele tijdgenoten in Groot-Brittannië.

Kinderen van ouders die bij de Oost-Duitse geheime dienst Stasi werkten, vertellen wat voor impact dit op hun jeugd had.

Verslag van een rondreis langs plaatsen in Nederland en België waar belangrijke gebeurtenissen tijdens de Tachtigjarige Oorlog (1568-1648) zich hebben afgespeeld.

Bundeling van twaalf interviews, waarin gewone Nederlanders vertellen over ingrijpende keuzes en gebeurtenissen tijdens de Tweede Wereldsoorlog.

Ancient Maya civilization thrived in the tropics of Central America for more than a thousand years and produced some of the world's finest architecture and art. Then it mysteriously vanished, leaving a landscape of ruins smothered by forests. The Classic Maya collapse is one of the great puzzles of history, ranking alongside the Fall of Rome as an enigma that has intrigued scholars for generations.

"Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was de grondlegger van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden. Tientallen jaren speelde hij een hoofdrol op het terrein van de Europese politiek. Zijn executie op 13 mei 1619 op het Binnenhof in Den Haag was een schokkende gebeurtenis. Duidelijk is dat prins Maurits de drijvende kracht achter zijn arrestatie was. In 1623 beraamden Oldenbarnevelts zoons Reinier en Willem een aanslag op de prins, die ternauwernood mislukte. Dat leidde tot de onthoofding van Reinier in Den Haag en een levenslange ballingschap van Willem in Brussel. Prins Maurits leek met de uitschakeling van zijn tegenstanders de eindoverwinnaar van het conflict, maar postuum trok Johan van Oldenbarnevelt aan het langste eind".

This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time than is commonly thought.

• Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.
• Reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.
• Sketches the ‘ripple effects’ of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.
• Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.
• Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.
• Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.

Ben Kroon: als jongeman tewerkgesteld in Duitsland, samen met honderdduizenden andere Nederlanders verspreid over dat immense land. En nog een paar miljoen uit alle andere veroverde landen. Hij maakt de laatste gruwelijke oorlogsjaren mee, hij is in Dresden tijdens het bombardement, hij ziet de treinbeschietingen, de executies, de paniek, het verraad. Ben Kroon laat de onthullende, hilarische en gevaarlijke belevenissen voor zichzelf spreken. Hij is ooggetuige van de ondergang, en is begaan met Duitse slachtoffers, moeders, bejaarden, kinderen. Zijn tocht door een onbeschrijfelijk inferno weet hij trefzeker en ontroerend te beschrijven