Hoeveel ellende kan een mens verdragen? Wat doet dit met je? Vragen die zich opdringen bij het lezen van de (oorlogs-) herinneringen van Anny Sulzbach en haar dochter Evelyn.

Op 6 juni 1943 staan zij op het perron van station Vught, te midden van honderden andere kinderen en hun ouders. De volgende dag eenzelfde tafereel. Het is het begin van een tocht die voor de meeste wachtenden zal eindigen in de gaskamers van Sobibor. Een gebeurtenis die later zal worden omschreven als ‘De Kindertrans...

Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific

Explores the lives of over forty men and women – great and otherwise – whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.

A guide to the Greek and Roman Myths. It features a blend of stories, facts and quotations from ancient authors, and places ancient myths in a modern context, discussing the afterlives of the myths and the relevance of their messages. It includes factfiles on heroes and heroines and family trees of the gods.

Spanning some 4,000 years and drawing anecdotes and quotations from ancient sources, Where War Began is a lively narrative of the origins of war in a region that is still afflicted by war and that still shapes global politics.

A brand-new history of the 14th and 15th century conflicts between England and France – original in approach and radical in its conclusions – that significantly broadens traditional narratives of the events historians have collectively labelled the Hundred Years War.

A spectacular, vivid, ground-breaking work of history which takes us into the mind and lives of medieval woman.