De manier waarop graaf van Vlaanderen Lodewijk van Male constant terugkomt op eerder gemaakte beloftes zorgt voor onrust en wantrouwen in de grote Vlaamse steden die zich vastklampen aan hun vertrouwde zelfstandigheid. Terwijl Gent in een open oorlog verwikkeld is met de graaf groeit in Ieper de tweespalt. De graafgezinde wetshouders steunen Lodewijk in zijn oorlog tegen de klauwaardse vrienden van de Ieperse ambachtslieden. Wanneer Filips van Artevelde aan het roer komt in Gent veranderen de...

The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet there is no comprehensive history of the tournament: based on fresh interviews and meticulously researched this book will change that.

By 1930, football had outgrown the Olympic Games. A new competition, run by Fifa, would take international football to the next level. After a shambolic...

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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933 to 1945 provides a year-by-year narrative, fully illustrated, of the road Adolf Hitler mapped out to achieve his dream - the destruction of the European Jewish population.