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The Forever War
america’s Unending Conflict with Itself
2024 || Hardcover || Nick Bryant || Bloomsbury
From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America's past, present and future - as a country which is forever at war with itself.
The Forever War tells the story of how America's extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled and unresolved past.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Divi...
Stirlings in Action With the Airborne Forces: Air Support for Sas and Resistance Operations During Wwii
Air Support for SAS and Resistance Operations During WWII
2007 || Hardcover || Dennis J. Dr. Williams || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Presents the history of two RAF squadrons - 190 and 620 - who shared the task of dropping agents and supplies on behalf of the SOE, took part in the D-Day landings, suffered heavy losses at Arnhem, dropped SAS Troops behind enemy lines and were involved with the Rhine crossing that sealed Germany's fate in 1945.
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De ziel van Parijs (Engels)
2023 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
In this book, reality always trumps fiction, truth always trumps myth. Get ready for a personal encounter with police inspectors and filles à la cuisse légère, Impressionists and art thieves, collaborators and résistants, Cubists and anarchists, artists’ models and terrorists, criminals and executioners.
In fascinating and often unknown stories, such as ‘The Chanel-Wertheimer Case’, ‘Lenin’s Yellow Jersey’ and ‘Selling the Eiffel Tower’, hundreds of Parisian souls are brou...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
2022 || Hardcover || Christopher de Hamel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centu...
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Impossible City
Paris in the Twenty-First Century
2024 || Hardcover || Simon Kuper || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.
Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family's neighbourhood. Over two decades of bec...
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 2
Personal Reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market, 17th-26th September 1944
2023 || Hardcover || Grant Newell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Airborne to Arnhem is the second of three volumes of reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th-26th September 1944 published by Helion and Company. The three volumes contain over 150 personal accounts received from veterans of the 1st Airborne Division alongside those from RAF aircrew and XXX Corps.
The study is the culmination of over forty years of research concentrating on the British 1st Airborne Division's role in the capture of the north end of the Arnhem bridge and ...
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A Cruise on the Nile
Or the Fabulous Story of Steam Ship Sudan
2023 || Hardcover || Jean-Francois Rial e.a. || Exhibitions International
A journey out of time along the biblical shores and the great sites of ancient Egypt, to the delicate rhythm of the ship...
We Agreed to Be Different. Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy 1960-2000
Sisters of charity of our lady mother of mercy 1960-2000
2017 || Hardcover || Annemieke van der Veen e.a. || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
During the sixties a wave of renewals surged through western civilisation, including the Catholic churches and convents. Almost everything changed in the life of religious: their work, their way of life, their appearance and their contacts with each other, and with others. Many left their congregation; others developed a new way of being religious within religious life. This book describes this process of change among the 'Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy', a congregation with s...
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The Bastion of Liberty / Druk 2
Hardcover || Willem Otterspeer || Leiden Publications
Leiden University was founded as an institution that would embody a particular set of academic ethics that sought to improve society through the acquisition of knowledge. In this book, author Willem Otterspeer draws on the idea of Leiden as 'a “bastion of liberty”' and proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'scale' are key to understanding the university as an institution, ultimately showing how universities are a form of social capital, one of Western society’s answers to the...
The old library of the supreme court of the Netherlands
2017 || Hardcover || J.G.B. Pikkemaat || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
This book is devoted to the collection of old printed books housed in the Supreme Courts library. This collection came into being in 1795 when the libraries of the Court of Holland and Zeeland and the Supreme Court of Holland and Zeeland were joined. A number of books from this collection were handed over to the Provincial Court of Zeeland in 1803, and in 1856 a large number of archivalia and non-legal volumes were transferred to the National Archives. This book describes the history of the...