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Blood on the Snow
The Russian Revolution 1914-1924
2023 || Hardcover || Robert Service || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.
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Papyrus
THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
2023 || Paperback || Irene Vallejo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and reading. An international bestseller.
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century
2023 || Paperback || Kassia St Clair || Veltman Distributie Import Books
10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution.
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Petrol is almost impossible to find, there are barely any roads, a...
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Tibetan typeforms
An historical and visual analysis of Tibetan typefaces
2023 || Paperback || Jo de Baerdemaeker || Buitenkant, Uitgeverij De
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Stalingrad
The Battle and the Air Bridge to Death
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik e.a. || Aspekt Publishers
It has been seventy yeas since the battle of Stalingrad ended. The city at the river Wolga drew German troops to it like a magnat. Hitler had officially declared the city as ‘fallen’, but then the Red Army encircled the German 6th Army. What followed was a major human tragedy. Honderds of thousands were trapped in the city. Food and ammunition were scarce and an attempt to break through from the South failed. The German troops were left with an air bridge. The daily air transport flew on ...
Churchill: Mirrors of Greatness
2023 || Paperback || David Reynolds || Harper Collins UK
Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his actions as a soldier and politician, gilded by his writings as a journalist and historian.
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The Journey of Humanity
2023 || Paperback || Oded Galor || Vintage UK
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery' LEWIS DARTNELL
'Completely brilliant and utterly original' JON SNOW
'Astounding in scope and insight' NOURIEL ROUBINI
The stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetime's scientific investigation, Oded Galor's ground-breaking new vision identif...
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Five Journeys
through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents
2023 || Paperback || Jaapjan Zeeberg || Aspect Publishers
This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union.
At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today’s ‘Lost World’ fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for ...
The Sea War
2023 || Paperback || Hugh Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the Second World War.
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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
2023 || Paperback || Naoise Mac Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez
'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman
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A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.
We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rh...