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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.
The Routledge Companion to Big History
2023 || Paperback || Craig Benjamin e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. A timely collection with contributions from leading proponents, it is the ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and concepts behind big history.
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Brothers in Arms
Romania, Nazi Germany and operation 'Barbarossa'
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
Suffering due to the consequences of the border revision of mid-europe, romania, led by marshal antonescu, opted for a pact with nazi germany. it was a deal with the devil. the romanian jews were sacrificed and the romanian army fell at stalingrad. the author sheds a light on the consequences of these fatal events through extensive archive work.
illustrated with special historical images
‘A Dutch historian explains the motivation behind the bloodbath at Odessa’
– Marius Ghilezan in Rom...
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Waffen-SS 1939-1945, A ruthless Enemy
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
The Waffen-SS, as fourth ‘army branch’ of the German army, is still surrounded with a certain mystical fog. Some divisions, mostly from the first levies, have general fame, like Hitler’s body guard division, the ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’, or the ‘Das Reich’ division. However, the fact that Waffen-SS grew into a significant force - 38 divisions - during the war, is largely unknown. Yet, due to the expansion, the elite status of the Waff-en-SS lessened. Leveled by its large nu...
Nazi Billionaires
The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
2023 || Paperback || David de Jong || HarperCollins Publishers
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.
In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested for suspected Naz...
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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.
Europe
The Enlightening History of a Continent
2023 || Paperback || Jean Baptiste Duroselle || Penguin Books Ltd
Whether as an epic battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on the history of the world for over two millennia.
From megalithic civilizations through ancient times, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of nationalism, two world wars and the years that followed, this book looks beyond a series of distinct national histories to offer the history of Europe as an often shared experience across one continent.
This book delves into events such a...
Serving the chain?
De Nederlandsche Bank and the last decades of slavery, 1814-1863
2023 || Paperback || Karwan Fatah-Black e.a. || Leiden Publications
In the nineteenth century, when the principal cultural, political, and financial institutions of the Netherlands were established, slavery was still very much part of the nation’s global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and governments are increasingly interested in the role their predecessors played in this history of colonialism and enslavement.
This book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a fac...
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Erich Ludendorff
Biography
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspect Publishers
There are several biographies about Erich Ludendorff. What most of them have in common is that they stop at the year 1918, the end of the First World War. This is un-justified. At the peak of his long career, between 1915 and roughly 1925, Ludendorff developed into the strongest man on the ‘right’. Thus, the years after the war were also of great importance. He was not only an important general who, with Paul von Hin-denburg, was in supreme command of Germany’s de facto military leaders...
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The Geopolitics of the Third Reich
the spiritual roots of the conquest to the east
2023 || Paperback || Perry Pierik || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Besides the persecution and annihilation of the Jewish community, the quest for Lebensraum was a pillar of the Nazi’s ideology. The march east, operation ‘Barbarossa’ (1941), was essentially the final part of the geopolitics of the Third Reich. Historian Pierik takes readers into the world of ideas behind these politics, where cold blooded, rational elements go hand in hand with myths and radical beliefs.
An example of solid and, more importantly, understandable historiography
-Jan Je...