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The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
2024 || Paperback || Professor Peter Frankopan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times
'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times
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From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.
When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive...
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A History of the World in 74 Borders
The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
2024 || Paperback || Jonn Elledge || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the 'charming and outstandingly nerdish' author of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything.
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way....
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Pathogenesis
How germs made history
2024 || Paperback || Jonathan Kennedy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week
'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times
'Full of amazing facts' Observer
'The book shines when it brings cutting-edge science to bear' Financial Times
'A dizzying range of material' The Economist
'A humbling story for humankind' Spectator
Challenges some of the gr...
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Homelands
2023 || Paperback || Timothy Garton Ash || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reporting and memoir by our greatest writer about Europe.
Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, Homelands tells the story of Europe since its emergence from wartime hell in 1945: how it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whole, free and at peace'. And then faltered.
Timothy Garton Ash has spent a lifetime studying Europe. Highly personal and deeply felt, this book is also...
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The Holocaust
An Unfinished History
2024 || Paperback || Dan Stone || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times
'Erudite...remarkable' The Observer
'Outstanding' The Telegraph
An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are majo...
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Antwerp
The Glory Years
2022 || Paperback || Michael Pye || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Even before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.
Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York, somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules - religious, sexual, intellectual.
In Antwerp, things changed. One man cornered all the money in the c...
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The Survivor
2023 || Paperback || Josef Lewkowicz e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only 16 years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated ...
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The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
2022 || Paperback || David Graeber e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times
'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternat...
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Knowing What We Know
The History of Knowledge and the Threat to Wisdom
2023 || Paperback || Simon Winchester || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.
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To the City
2023 || Paperback || Alexander Christie-Miller || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.