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Between Starshine and Clay
Conversations from the African Diaspora
2022 || Hardcover || Sarah Ladipo Manyika || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Conversations w ith the most distinguished black thinkers of our times, includingToni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, W ole Soyinka and Michelle Obama, on race,decolonisation, systemic inequalities, and the climate crisis.
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Paperback || Niall Ferguson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?
While populist rulers cert...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
2024 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS
Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plo...
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The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
2024 || Paperback || Brad Meltzer e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A major international bestseller. The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted.
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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Age of the City
Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
2023 || Paperback || Goldin Ian Goldin e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to ris...
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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...
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The Story of Russia
'An excellent short study'
2023 || Paperback || Orlando Figes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History
'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM
'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
'A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'[An] excellent short study' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
'If you really want to understand Putin'...
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The World
A Family History
2023 || Paperback || Simon Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prize-winning, bestselling historian
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The Savage Storm
The Battle for Italy 1943
2023 || Paperback || James Holland || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Impeccably researched and superbly written' Observer
'Holland has something new to say.... Filled with insight and detail' Neil Oliver
'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks
With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the Germ...