Biografie

Leven en werk tot 1860 van de Nederlandse schrijver Multatuli (pseud. van Eduard Douwes Dekker 1820-1887).

Biografie van de Vlaamse letterkundige (1898-1989) op basis van analyse van diens werk.

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time, and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."

Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? What was his primary motive for the extermination of the Jews? The Hitler of History answers these questions as fully as any modern work can hope to, with an intellectual boldness that makes it absolutely essential to any understanding of the post-Hitler world.

Exploration of the personality and life of Hitler`s Chief of the SS

Na de oorlog hebben tallozen zich gebogen over het verschijnsel Adolf Hitler. Het is inmiddels een cliche dat de omvangrijke literatuur over Hitler niet meer is te overzien. Op internet zijn tientallen miljoenen verwijzingen naar hem te vinden. Maar één facet van het leven van Adolf Hitler is aan de aandacht van de meeste van zijn biografen ontsnapt: zijn ambities als beeldend kunstenaar. Geen museum waagt zich aan een tentoonstelling van zijn schilderijen, aquarellen, tekeningen, decorontwerpen en architectonische schetsen, een catalogus van deze werken is nimmer opgesteld. Toch hebben zijn kunstzinnige aspiraties en niet zijn politieke de eerste dertig jaar van het leven van de Fuhrer beheerst. Hitlers biografen maken wel gewag van zijn kunstenaarschap, maar zoeken daarin voornamelijk naar voorafspiegelingen van de latere dictator en misdadiger. Lambert Giebels concentreerde zich juist op de ontwikkeling van Hitler als beeldend kunstenaar, om vervolgens na te gaan of diens eerste dertig levensjaren herkenningspunten bieden voor later.

Levensbeschrijving van de journalist en sociaal-democratische politicus, een van de oprichters en leiders van de SDAP.

Een prachtig portret van Nederlands grootste komiek

Biografie van de Nederlandse schrijver (1912-1969).Tevens proefschrift Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (met stellingen). De titel van het boek in de titel van het gedicht waarmee de biografie begint

Journalist Konrad Heiden was one of the first to hear the young Adolf Hitlers rousing orations and to recognize his political ingenuity and perverse, self-serving ideology. As a staff reporter on the Frankfurter Zeitung, Heiden was one of the first writers to take a stand against Nazism, and his is the only contemporary document to give the whole story of Hitlers rise to power from the very beginning to the day in 1934 when the Blood Purge eliminated the last opposition, leaving him absolute dictator of Germany. As Heiden states, “his path of murder and violence was, in accordance with Hitlers beliefs, the right path to greatness.” 
First published at the height of the Second World War, this new edition of Heiden’s work, which the New York Times Book Review called “remorselessly, ruthlessly objective,” shows it to be not only a profound and revealing narrative but also an important historical document essential to both historian and layman for a greater understanding of the calamitous events that dominated the twentieth century.

Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in the heyday of Montparnasse. This book follows him through the free love of Paris and into World War I.

Biografie van de Franse filosoof en letterkundige (1905-1980).

Het leven van Franciscus van Assisië (1180-1226) naar eigentijdse bronnen verhaald met een poging zijn persoon te plaatsen in zijn tijd.

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking, rock music, and girls, all while achieving notable status as a BMX rider. But everything changed in his world the day he first held the beat-up one-string guitar his grandmother had discarded in a closet.

The instrument became his voice and it triggered a lifelong passion that made everything else irrelevant. As soon as he could string chords and a solo together, Slash wanted to be in a band and sought out friends with similar interests. His closest friend, Steven Adler, proved to be a conspirator for the long haul. As hairmetal bands exploded onto the L.A. scene and topped the charts, Slash sought his niche and a band that suited his raw and gritty sensibility.

He found salvation in the form of four young men of equal mind: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, and Duff McKagan. Together they became Guns N' Roses, one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Dirty, volatile, and as authentic as the streets that weaned them, they fought their way to the top with groundbreaking albums such as the iconic Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion I and II.

Here, for the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the band came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. This is a window onto the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. This is a candid recollection and reflection of Slash's friendships past and present, from easygoing Izzy to ever-steady Duff to wild-child Steven and complicated Axl.

It is also an intensely personal account of struggle and triumph: as Guns N' Roses journeyed to the top, Slash battled his demons, escaping the overwhelming reality with women, heroin, coke, crack, vodka, and whatever else came along.

He survived it all: lawsuits, rehab, riots, notoriety, debauchery, and destruction, and ultimately found his creative evolution. From Slash's Snakepit to his current band, the massively successful Velvet Revolver, Slash found an even keel by sticking to his guns.

Slash is everything the man, the myth, the legend, inspires: it's funny, honest, inspiring, jaw-dropping . . . and, in a word, excessive.

Levensbeschrijving van de echtgenote van de in 2008 gekozen Amerikaanse president.

In 1065 kijkt een honderdjarige terug op zijn leven, zijn avonturen, zijn omzwervingen, zijn vriendschap met keizer Otto III en bovenal zijn liefde voor boeken.

Biografisch-filosofische roman over Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), die logica en ethiek probeerde te verzoenen.

Biografie van de Amerikaanse president (1917-1963).