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The Kurdish Odyssey
Navigating the history, culture and the identity of the Kurds
2024 || Paperback || Alaa Dusky || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Kurds, known to many to be fearless people with history and cultural heritage going way beyond the borders of a land, are often badly or minimally represented in the media. So, who are these people, and what is their deal?
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The Last Hurrah
The Leadership of the German Armed Forces During the Last Weeks of World War II
2024 || Paperback || Andris J. Kursietis || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “The Last Hurrah”, contains the military biographies of the seventy-two German generals and admirals who held high-level command positions during the last six weeks of World War II. Also included are brief overviews of those commands – their histories during the war and fates at the end of the conflict.
For his previous work on the Hungarian milit...
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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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Struggle for the Scheldt 1944
the crucial battle for Western Europe
2024 || Paperback || R.A.B. Bruijns || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
The battle of the Scheldt is often seen as a side-show, an unglamorous campaign of months of hard fighting. This image needs to change. The Scheldt was at the heart of the German strategy to keep the Allies at bay, and its control was essential for the Allied effort to push into Germany. In this book the battle is analysed from all sides (including the civilians!) and from all perspectives - land, air and sea. It highlights often forgotten but important efforts, like the Allied anti-aircraft ...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Joop van Wijk- Voskuijl e.a. || Simon & Schuster UK
A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that reveals the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, the young Dutch woman who was Anne Frank’s closest confidante during the time she spent in the Secret Annex.
The Greatest Nobodies of History
minor Characters from Major Moments
2024 || Paperback || Adrian Bliss || Century
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters.
The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance master, the servant who oversaw the Tudor's toilet time, or the famous horse who thrilled the miserable old monarch.
These supporting cast members have been waiting in the wings for too long, and ...
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Souls Of The Sea
2024 || Paperback || Kelly Ladell || Bookmundo
Allada, a small coastal village in Africa,its the 1700's and Irisa relishes in her affinity with the sea and the herbs and plants she collects for medicines to heal the sick.
When her family and friends are threatened, she allows the village wise-woman, Fugra to help her control her God Gift - a darkness of trapped souls that she can call forth to rid the world of those that mean them harm.
Together Irisa and her friends, face domestic abuse,slavery,female genital mutilation (FGM), rape and m...