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[Dressed to kill] seeks to show naval uniforms from a new perspective because it is important that the development of uniform be viewed alongside contemporary civilian fashions. The essays at the beginning not only examine the progression of regulations but also, more significantly, place the uniforms in their economic, social and historical contexts. They are followed by a catalogue of selected uniforms from the rich collections of the National Maritime Museum, which serve to reinforce the themes drawn out in the essays. The last section of line drawings of selected patterns provides an insight into the construction of the garments.

Part 1 - The Infantry of the Allies and the Central Powers, Tanks, Aircraft  - Part 2 - Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, Medical Services, Administration, Navy and the Marines

This is a unique reference source on the armies, battles, weapons and leaders of the first of the great wars that shook Europe and the World during the twentieth century. There are over 250 contemporary photographs and engravings and clear maps that illustrate the principal battles and campaigns. The book includes: * The Campaigns: chronology, battles * The Weaponry: arms, strategy, tactics on land and sea * The Warring Sides: armies, navies, leaders and led * The Commanders: the significant leaders and characters * The Sources: contemporary records, books, graphic arts, photography and videos * Miscellanea: statistics, pay, clothing issue, weapons performance etc. * Glossary of period and technical terms

Here is the comprehensive reference guide for the millions of fans of the Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. All of the imaginary beasts, monsters, fauna, and flora of J.R.R. Tolkien's lush fantasy worlds of the Middle-Earth and the Undying Lands are presented in more that 100 black-and-white illustrations and 36 full color paintings. A Chronology of all the historical ages, a general index, genealogies of the races of men, maps, and a special index referring to Tolkien's original works are also included.

The Great War was in many ways without precedent in the annals of history. Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time; never had a war reached so deeply into the lives of people far away from the battlefield. Presenting an account of this critical and violent period of world history, and tying in with a BBC2 television series, this book focuses on the social and cultural effects of the war, supported by letters and diaries, poems and photographs.

Volume II of the Chronicle starts at the beginning of 1917 and covers the war on all nine fronts (as in Vol I), in day-by-day detail, up to the armistice of 1918 and on through the peace process until 1921. The presentation of the vast amount of information affords the reader a two-way perspective. Horizontally across the columns is a time-line perspective showing what was happening where on any given day. Vertically, throughout the two volumes of the Chronology, is an account of the activity on each of the nine fronts listed above.

Gedurende vrijwel zijn hele leven was Dmitri Sjostakovitsj voor zowel de Oost als de Westeuropese muziekwereld een omstreden figuur. In het Westen was hij jarenlang de geniale componist in dienst van een totalitair regim. In Rusland ontwikkelde hij zich al snel tot een Sovjetkunstenaar en zijn symfonieën en opera's werden regelmatig uitgevoerd. Maar zoals voor elke kunstenaar was het ook voor Sjostakovitsj onmogelijk om onder Russische dictatuur in vrijheid te werken. De succesvolle en in politiek dubbelzinnige opera Lady Macbeth van Mtsensk wekte de woede van Stalin persoonlijk en leverde Sjostkovitsj de eerste publieke veroordeling op. Geschokt en geïntimideerd trok de componist zijn partituur terug en hij antwoordde met zijn vijfde symfonie:'Het antwoord van een Sojetkunstenaar op terechte kritiek'. Nauwgezet met een grote muzikale kennis volgt biograaf Krzysztof Meyer het leven van Sjostakovits; hij laat zien hoe de begaafde kunstenaar zich in een dictatoriaal regime wist te handhaven en te ontwikkelen.

What is it to grieve for the death of a parent? More literary and experiential than other philosopical works on emotion, Upheavals of Thought will engage the reader who has ever stopped to ask that question. Emotions such as grief, fear, anger and love seem to be alien forces that disturb our thoughts and plans. Yet they also embody some of our deepest thoughts--about the importance of the people we love, about the vulnerability of our bodies and our plans to events beyond our control. In this wide-ranging book, based on her Gifford Lectures, philosopher Martha Nussbaum draws on philosophy, psychology, anthropology, music and literature to illuminate the role emotions play in our thoughts about important goals. Starting with an account of her own mother's death, she argues that emotions are intelligent appraisals of a world that we do not control, in the light of our own most significant goals and plans. She then investigates the implications of this idea for normative issues, analyzing the role of compassion in private and public reasoning and the attempts of authors both philosophical and literary to purify or reform the emotion of erotic love. Ultimately, she illuminates the structure of emotions and argues that once we understand the complex intelligence of emotions we will also have new reasons to value works of literature as sources of ethical education. Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago, appointed in Law School, Philosophy department, and Divinity School, and an Associate in Classics. A leading scholar in ancient Greek ethics, aesthetics and literature, her previous books include The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge, 1986), Loves's Knowledge (Oxford, 1992), Poetic Justice (Beacon Press, 1997), The Therapy of Desire (Princeton, 1996), Cultivating Humanity (Harvard, 1997), and Sex and Social Justice (Oxford, 1999). Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Review of Books, and New Republic.

"'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le CarrU has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le CarrU is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le CarrU endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le CarrU gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. The Pigeon Tunnel, John le CarrU's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers."

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen.

Biografie van de Nederlandse dirigent (1929- ) tot aan zijn afscheid van het Concertgebouworkest in 1988.

In Somme Lyn Macdonald explores one of the most harrowing battles in British history.'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded. Here, almost for the first time, Lyn Macdonald lets the men who were there give their own testimony. Their stories are vivid, harrowing, sometimes terrifying - yet shot through with humour, immense courage and an astonishing spirit of resilience.'What the reader will longest remember are the words - heartbroken, blunt, angry - of the men who lived through the bloodbath...a worthy addition to the literature of the Great War...' Daily MailOver the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

Philip Roth volgt de lotgevallen van zijn alleman vanaf zijn eerste, aangrijpende confrontatie met de dood tijdens een zomer in zijn jeugd op een idyllisch strand, via de familieperikelen en de hoogtepunten in zijn beroep en vitale volwassenheid, tot aan hoge leeftijd, als hij wordt verscheurd door het aanzicht van zijn aftakelende leeftijdgenoten en zelf wordt achtervolgd door zijn eigen lichamelijke klachten. Hij is succesvol creatief agent bij een New Yorks reclamebureau en heeft uit een eerste huwelijk twee zoons, die hem verachten en uit een tweede huwelijk een dochter, die hem adoreert. Hij is de geliefde broer van een goede man wiens lichamelijke welzijn een bittere jaloezie veroorzaakt, en hij is de eenzame ex-echtgenoot van drie zeer verschillende vrouwen met wie hij een puinhoop heeft gemaakt van het huwelijk. Uiteindelijk is hij de man geworden die hij niet wil zijn.

Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas's fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege, and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl British boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders, and Instagram angst. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the world of the school gets ever darker and even weirder.

Scarlett Thomas's first adult fiction since 2015 is a major return. Wildly frank, funny, and full of humanity, Oligarchy reminds us how insightful, vulnerable, brilliant, and misunderstood teenagers are, never more so than now.

The Classic Account of Passchendaele - Reissued for the First World War Centenary The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. Lyn Macdonald's Passchendaele tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour. Passchendaele portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare. 'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the unforgettably evoked underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time ganster, meets his nemesis at the hands of Ida, the girl he betrays, Published in 1938, Greene's most celebrated novel signalled the beginning of the long series of masterpieces produced between then and his death in 1991

Monoloog van een oude joodse man die vanwege zijn ervaringen in Auschwitz geen kinderen wilde hebben. Nobelprijswinaar 2002. 

This book provides a simple introduction to the magic of endgame studies. It contains no baffling jargon, and each study is illustrated by three diagrams.

A survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the muslims