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.

"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.

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.

A chronicle of the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.

This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with their views on the past, on sexuality, on animals, on death, the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and comprehensive portrayal of a period which begins with conquest and ends in assimilation.

In this thorough and illuminating work, Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of Plantagenet England, a dramatic and turbulent period which saw many changes. In politics it saw Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown in Henry II's reign and it witnessed the deposition of Edward I. In contrast, it also saw the highly successful rules of Edward I and his grandson, Edward III. Political institutions were transformed with the development of parliament and war was a dominant theme: Wales was conquered and the Scottish Wars of Independence started in Edward I's reign, and under Edward III there were triumphs at Crécy and Poitiers. Outside of politics, English society was developing a structure, from the great magnates at the top to the peasantry at the bottom. Economic changes were also significant, from the expansionary period of the thirteenth century to years of difficulty in the fourteenth century, culminating in the greatest demographic disaster of historical times, the Black Death. In this volume in the New Oxford History of England Michael Prestwich brings this fascinating century to life.

Verhalen van binnen- en buitenlandse auteurs.

Geschiedenis van twee Amsterdamse joodse sportlieden in de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw, die in 1908 deelnamen aan de Olympische Spelen op het onderdeel turnen.

Bundel opstellen over de veelbewogen geschiedenis van de staat Israel.

Beschrijving van technische en economische aspecten bij het toepassen van windturbines.

"The establishment and subsequent liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience, yet, remarkably, a full history of the ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts, and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English." "In this bookthe authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, detailing the daily experience of its thousands and thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation in 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the structure of the Judenrat. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka in July 1942 and the famous uprising in April 1943. Detailed original maps identify the locations of businesses, social institutions, medical facilities, and more, while biographical notes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography complete this masterful work of restoration."--BOOK JACKET.

A devastating, day-by-day record of life in the second-largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi Europe--a community that was reduced from 163,177 people in 1941 to 877 by 1944. Compiled by inhabitants of the ghetto and illustrated with more than seventy haunting photographs, the Chronicle is a document unparalleled among writings on the Holocaust.
"A remarkable piece of testimony. To read it is to pay the dead the small tribute of remembrance, and to be devastated by a picture of a particular and terrible hell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto tears at the mind and heart and leaves a dark and numbing rage in the center of the soul."--Chaim Potok, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Fascinating, disturbing."--Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review
" Dobroszycki] has done a major service not only to historians and students of the Holocaust, but to all those, both Jews and non-Jews, who are interested in how a tyrannical regime can exploit, starve, and deceive tens of thousands of intelligent, articulate people in time of war."--Martin Gilbert, The New York Review of Books
"Sober yet unforgettably vivid."--S.S. Prawer, Times Literary Supplement
"A milestone in Holocaust studies. Its wealth of information and accuracy, and the systematic manner in which it was compiled, makes in an unequalled source on the history of the destruction of European Jewry."--Alexander Zvielli, The Jerusalem Post Magazine
"Well worth reading as a record of extremes of human experience."--Majorie Meehan, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry
"Dr. Dobroszycki is a survivor of the ghetto. He is also a trained historian with a sophisticated, finely honed mind. No one knows as much about these records as he does. No one understands them better."--Raul Hilberg
Lucjan Dobroszycki is a historian at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yeshiva University.

Als Gerard Kremer in 1941 huismeester wordt van een kantoorpand aan de Westermarkt 2 (Huize Labor) in Amsterdam, om de hoek van wat we nu kennen als het Achterhuis, heeft hij nog geen idee welke rol hij zal gaan spelen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Door omstandigheden en omdat hij zijn ogen niet wil sluiten voor wat er gebeurt, belandt hij langzamerhand in het verzet. Als in de daaropvolgende periode de Wehrmacht een deel van het pand bezet houdt voor geheime activiteiten en Gerard daarbij nog besluit Joodse onderduikers te huisvesten, speelt hij gevaarlijk spel. Dat wordt hem bijna fataal.0Een waargebeurd verhaal over "De kruidenier van de Westermarkt", die door zijn unieke positie illegaal voedsel kon verstrekken aan de omgeving van het Achterhuis. 0Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen. Het werpt tevens een geheel nieuw licht op het verraad van het Achterhui.

Geschiedenis van de positie van en de zorg voor werkneemsters in de Philipsfabrieken vanaf 1891.

Verhandeling over de politieke rol van Lord Londonderry voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Het leven van een Vlaamse jongen in de jaren 1939-1947, waarin tevens een beeld wordt gegeven van het leven in Vlaanderen in een periode van oorlog, collaboratie en strijd om het overleven.

"The information has been methodically collected and divided... [giving] the reader a clear picture...The analysis of the Holocaust period is enriched by accounts from the human aspect, which further our understanding of the individual's action and their motives."--Prof. Dina Porat, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University"A comprehensive work on the third largest Jewish community in Poland during the Nazi occupation...The research constitutes an important contribution to the history of the Holocaust in general and to the history of Polish and Ukrainian Jewry of this period in particular."--Prof. Israel Gutman, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and former Head Historian, Yad Vashem

In this work the author selects more than 150 of those he considers to be the most influential and unusual journeys of discovery, setting each firmly in its historical context. This book chronicles the personalities, the conditions that were endured, and the contribution that exploration has made to our knowledge of the world.

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. If the war itself had in most places been a struggle mainly between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were predominantly perpetrated by civilians and paramilitaries, and driven by a murderous sense of injustice projected on to enemies real and imaginary. In the years immediately after he armistice, millions would die across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant in Italy, Germany, and elsewhere. As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but of the twentieth century as a whole