To look is not the same as to see. By looking you can discern people and things. You look from a distance to bring them closer, to find out more. In doing this we use our language. We are makers of images, and with these images we create our reality.

To see or behold is something else. The moment you see, there is no distance between seer and what is seen. It happens directly, without the use of tools, immediately. The moments you see lead to wordless wisdom which is comprised of creativity, ...

The start of operation ‘Barbarossa’ was the beginning of one of the most dramatic campaigns in World History. Two titans clashed. The summer of 1941 was catastrophic to the Red Army. However, they were able to keep their position. This blood drenched marvel is what this book is about, which shows that heroism and terror go hand in hand when it comes to stopping German attackers at the gates of Moscow.

On September 18th, 1944, day two of Operation Market Garden, a thunder in the sky alarmed the Dutch town of Heinkenszand. The citizens ran outside their homes, to see a burning bomber flying toward them and parachutes floating down. The American B-24 Liberator skimmed over the buildings and crashed in a polder. Two airmen lost their lives, German soldiers arrested six, and two mangaged to escape. Local resistance fighters came to the aid of the escaped airmen. This book, written by a grandson...

During 50 years David Bowie played almost 1,900 concerts throughout the world. His earliest documented "concert" was at the 18th Bromley Wolf Club Boy Scouts Summer Camp in August, 1958. His final "performance" took place at the High Line Festival in 2007 in New York City, introducing Ricky Gervais with a short song.

The two-part catalogue 'David Bowie Live 1958 - 1986' and 'David Bowie Live 1987 - 2007' take you to every one of these concerts. The focus of this book is on David Bowie's live ...

On a cold Monday morning in March 1945, just after the hunger winter, children and their parents gathered on a dock in Waddinxveen. The malnourished children are leaving on a boat to Drenthe, where there still is food. They don’t know how long they will be away or where they are heading. But they trust the minister and they the need for food is high. The children have become refugees of war in their own country.

In 2016 the author and grandchild of minister Warmenhoven found his travelogue...

Towards the middle of the twenty-first century, the Covid-19 (‘Corona’) crisis of the early twenties, which killed millions, is forgotten. Yet the virus has changed Planet Earth irreversibly. It laid bare the naked fact that the world had become too dependent on traditional forms of nutrition, communication and transportation.

When the virus had finally been defeated, brilliant minds applied themselves to developing innovative techniques to elevate what remained of humanity to an entirel...

A question which occupies many people in the West, and not only historians,

is the following: why did liberalism fail in Russia? Had there been no possibility

for a gradual development towards a constitutional monarchy which

many Western countries had shown, though perhaps over a prolonged period

of time?

The author has chosen the life of a well-known lawyer, Vasilii Maklakov, to

show how one person has tried to realize and put into practice the road towards

such a gradual development. Vasili...

‘Sylvia Duijm was not born as Master of Passion, it is what she became when she combined her studies, interests and experience of life’. In an outspoken way, Sylvia Duijm tells of her quest for acknowledgement, love and friendship. As a daughter in an ex-pat family, she moved seven times before she was seven years old, living on four different continents. Her parents’ unstable marriage, her temperament, the rules that applied in the various environments, and repeated changes of school r...

The Battle of Khalkin Gol (also called Nomonhan), sent shockwaves through world history. It was a testbed for future Soviet doctrine and a catalyst for the Japanese political upheaval that brought the United States into every theater of World War II.

A rebuilding Russian army (still reeling from Stalin’s purges) and its combined-arms doctrine faced off against Japan’s modern bushido; the Soviet tactics used successfully here would prove devastating in the war to come. The Russian vi...