De wereld benijdt de Fransen Versailles. Maar wist u dat Brussel eeuwenlang een paleis had dat dat van Versailles naar de kroon stak? Het Coudenberg ontstond in de elfde eeuw en zag tal van grote namen uit de geschiedenis passeren: van Filips de Goede over Margaretha van Parma tot Maximiliaan van Beieren. De legendarische keizer Karel V er deed troonsafstand in de schitterende Aula Magna. Het prachtige park, de vele kunstschatten en de prachtig ingerichte kamers trokken tal van gekroonde hoof...

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This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare.

Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Eire) - and four nations - the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish, and the English - from prehistory to the present.