Waarom wordt een intelligente, muzikale, mooie vrouw met een stem van vloeibaar goud geen zangeres? Is ze te zeer gehecht aan haar vrome vader, haar benepen zus? Wordt ze het slachtoffer van haar eigen bedompte Vlaamse katholicisme?

Haar veel jongere, eveneens intelligente, eveneens begaafde neef wil weten wat zijn begaafde tante gemaakt heeft tot de koppige, zure vrouw die hij kent.
Deze roman speelt zich af op het Vlaamse platteland en in Brussel, tussen 1920 en 1970, en is geschreven in de taal van die tijd.

De sociale en culturele geschiedenis van de stad Brussel.

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But as the powers of Europe slid inexorably toward war, the Middle East could not escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Great War spelled the end of the Ottomans, unleashing powerful forces that would forever change the face of the Middle East. Here, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the making of the modern Middle East.--From publisher description.

The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended- a new republic was born.
Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland's history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical - but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.

Beschrijving van de oorlogsgeschiedenis van een welgestelde Nederlands-Duits-Baltische familie in de twintigste eeuw.

Een straatarme jood verbergt zich in Praag voor de nazi-terreur.

"Hoe verschrikkelijk de jodenvervolging was, hebben talloze geschiedenisboeken, egodocumenten en historische romans ons geprobeerd duidelijk te maken. Maar je werkelijk voorstellen wat het betekent uit je huis te worden gehaald, alles achter te moeten laten, niet te weten of je ooit weer thuis zult komen, mensen om je heen te zien verdwijnen, te leven in voortdurende angst - dat gaat toch nog altijd ons voorstellingsvermogen te boven. In 'Vandaag' laat Pauline Micheels op nuchtere en tegelijk indringende wijze het leven ervaren in het doorgangskamp Westerbork, het laatste 'station' van de joden in Nederland. Zij verwerkt daarin de verhalen die in haar familie de ronde deden, maar ook de kennis die zij vergaarde tijdens jarenlang historisch onderzoek. In deze beklemmende oorlogsnovelle volgen we het dagelijks leven in het kamp via dagboekaantekeningen van een bijna twaalfjarige jongen. Een leven dat voor de kinderen schijnbaar gewoon doorging."--Back cover.

This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

In early 1945, the Red Army plunged into the Third Reich from the east, rolling up territory and crushing virtually everything in its path, with one exception: the city of Breslau, which Hitler had declared a fortress-city, to be defended to the death. This book examines in detail the notorious four-month siege of Breslau.

• The first full-length English-language account of the bloody siege
• Chronicles the bitter struggle as the Red Army encircled Breslau and eventually pillaged the city, taking savage retribution on the survivors
• Details the brutal methods used by the city's Nazi leaders to keep German troops fighting and maintain order

Tom Buijtendorp geeft in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' duidelijkheid over Julius Caesars aanwezigheid in de Nederlanden, iets wat lange tijd in nevelen gehuld was. Julius Caesar sloeg een tijdlang met zijn legers kamp op in de Lage Landen en hij vocht veldslagen uit in deze regio, waarvan Caesar zelf dacht dat hij er gedood zou kunnen worden. Op basis van een reeks nieuwe ontdekkingen, zoals vondsten in een Karolingisch handschrift, een gezichtsreconstructie van Caesar in het RMO en rapporten van een Romeinse legerofficier, laat Buijtendorp in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' zien dat we de plaatsen waar Caesar in Nederland en België verbleef nu ook kunnen aanwijzen.

The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic identity, and of the social caste by whom it was defined and transmitted.

After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders, but by their fellow citizens--sometimes neighbors, relatives, and former friends. The children who survived them vividly remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell their tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English, describe the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own miraculous survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020

'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary Supplement

From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities.

Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability.

In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.

Verslag op basis van egodocumenten van de laatste dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland, toen veel Duitse burgers zelfmoord pleegden uit wanhoop en ontreddering over de nederlaag van de nazi's.

Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's Year Zero and what came after. He describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, and the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life.

Die "Globalisierung" führt heute jeder im Munde, aber was genau darunter zu verstehen ist, darüber herrscht vielfach Unklarheit. Jürgen Osterhammel, der seit seinem Bestseller Die Verwandlung der Welt zu den angesehensten Historikern unserer Zeit gehört, geht in diesem Band einer ubiquitären "Denkfigur" des 21. Jahrhunderts genauer auf den Grund und stellt die grundsätzliche Frage nach den Massstäben und Methoden einer Vorgeschichte der globalen Gegenwart. Wer die Vergangenheit verstehen will, der bedarf - wie die Essays dieser Sammlung höchst eindrucksvoll zeigen - der "Flughöhe der Adler": In seiner grossen Höhe hat er den weiten Überblick und behält dennoch die Details am Boden fest im Auge. (Quelle: www.buch.ch)

East Prussia 1945. Seven-year-old Liesabeth Otto lost her mother and siblings while fleeing the Red Army. Alone she wanders through the forests and ends up in the neighboring Baltic States in search of food and shelter. She struggled for years under incredible privation, always on the lookout for Soviet henchmen. A harrowing fate, at the same time a panorama of German-Soviet post-war history.

Zusammenfassung: De geschiedenis van rechts terreur in Duitsland begon niet met de opkomst van de nationaalsocialisten, maar met een samenzwering tegen de Duitse democratie en een bloedige reeks moorden precies honderd jaar geleden. De daders in de vroege Weimarrepubliek hadden dezelfde motieven, wrok en doelen als de rechtse terroristen van nu. Hun dodelijke vastberadenheid was gebaseerd op sociaal milieu en emotie, op structeren en netwerken die overal mogelijk zijn en nooit helemaal zijn verdwenen. In De wraak van de verliezers legt Florian Huber parallellen tussen rechts terreur in de vroege Weimarrepubliek en het rechts-terrorisme van nu. Een spannend verhaal dat uitmondt in de spectaculaire moord op Walther Rathenau, de Duitse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, waarmee Huber laat zien dat de geschiedenis zich nu herhaalt - of dat de aantrekkingskracht rechts-terrorisme wellicht nooit echt is afgenomen. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

"This engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula."—Historian

Tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog gaan vier mannen op weg om een belangrijke tegenstander te doden.

Memoirs of ten Jewish men and women (from the Netherlands, France, and Germany) on their experiences as children or adults during the Holocaust period, in hiding or in concentration camps, and on their postwar lives. Many members of their families perished. Some of the children were converted and had serious problems after the war in the attempt to rediscover their Jewish identity. Some adults chose to change their names and assimilate. also relates to postwar experiences of antisemitism in the Netherlands.

This book is a major critical study of the connections between the 'public' character of television and the various ways it works as communication. John Corner asks fundamental questions about the nature of what appears on the screen and how it variously engages, informs and entertains viewers. After setting out some of the distinctive features of the medium, illustrated by examples, the question of the likely and possible social and political consequences of these features is directly addressed. Chapters on the specific but changing forms of news, documentary and advertising provide a vivid and detailed analysis of some of television's most controversial ways of addressing the viewer as citizen and consumer.

Das Grundlagenwerk zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik Die Weimarer Republik gilt als erster Versuch Deutschlands, auf demokratischen Füßen zu stehen. Doch ihre Schöpfer schafftes es aus nationalpolitischen Rücksichten nicht, einen klaren strukturellen und moralischen Trennungsstrich zu den Verfechtern der alten Ordnung zu ziehen. Dem großen Historiker Hans Mommsen gelingt es, die komplizierten innen- und außenpolitischen Geschehnisse zu verdeutlichen und eine pointierte Darstellung zum Thema zu liefern.

Klappentext: Ab 1944 werden Tausende deutsche Kinder in Ostpreußen von ihren Familien getrennt - viele für immer. Gegen Hunger, Kälte und sowjetische Willkür führen sie einen Kampf um Leben und Tod. Auf sich allein gestellt, überleben diese sogenannten "Wolfskinder" in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Von litauischen Bauern gerettet, bleiben sie unter falscher Identität hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück. Nach jahrzehntelangem Schweigen erzählen sie erstmals von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit. Aber auch von Menschen, die ihnen den Weg in die Zukunft wiesen.

De Tachtigjarige Oorlog is een van de belangrijkste perioden uit de geschiedenis der Nederlanden. In die woelige tijd werd de basis gelegd voor het Nederland zoals wij dat nu kennen. De strijd die in de loop van de 16de eeuw binnen de Lage Landen uitbrak - tegen het beleid van Filips II en vóór godsdienstvrijheid - leidde uiteindelijk tot de onafhankelijkheid van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden. Met de langverwachte herziening van de standaardwerken "De kogel door de kerk?" en "De bruid in de schuit" biedt deze uitgave voor het eerst een totaaloverzicht van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog (1559-1650). De tekst is volledig aangepast aan de huidige stand van de wetenschap en werd voorzien van een geactualiseerde beredeneerde bibliografie en vele illustraties in kleur. Aan bod komen de staatsrechtelijke, economische, maatschappelijke en godsdienstige aspecten van dit boeiende tijdvak.

Augustine in the fourth and fifth centuries and Thomas More in the sixteenth were familiar with the deceits and illusions that enabled even the most vile rulers to shore up their dignity and that gave repressive regimes an inviolability of sorts. Both men knew the politics of their times, both were involved in politics, and both were at one time politically ambitious. Augustine needed and made good use of government's powers of coercion and damage control in his struggle against the Donatists. The clear advantages of political protection and correction preoccupied More in his battle against Martin Luther. Both later changed their minds and believed, finally, the political imagination, based as it is on a desire for power, always and inevitably leads to devastation and suffering. Peter Iver Kaufman explains how and why we have failed to appreciate Augustine's and More's profound political pessimism, reintroducing readers to two of the Christian tradition's most enigmatic yet influential figures. Each had been disturbed by the reach of his own political ambitions--as by those of contemporaries. Each knew that government was useful--yet always deceitful. And each wrote a classic--widely read to this day, Augustine's City of God and More's Utopia,as well as abundant correspondence and polemical tracts to explain why government on earth might be used, though never meaningfully improved.