De Grote Oorlog Kroniek 1914-1918 is dé serie in Nederland en Vlaanderen met als onderwerp de geschiedschrijving van en reflectie over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De delen van deze serie verschijnen met grote regelmaat, in principe elk halfjaar. Dat wordt mogelijk gemaakt door de samenwerking tussen Uitgeverij Aspekt en de Stichting Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog (SSEW).

In deze Kroniek treft u elf essays aan. Ze bestrijken een breed spectrum van onderwerpen.

Opvallend in deze Kroniek is ho...

Peoples who spoke Germanic languages told us in their own words, symbols and artefacts how they experienced people, animals, plants and the world in which they lived. They did this in the form of sagas and legends about gods, elves, giants, dwarfs and other mythological creatures, and in stories about legendary events that made a deep impression on them. Since the Migration Period (c. 300 – 600 AD), these stories have been written down in several Germanic languages, including Old Norse, Old...

We leven in een turbulente uiterst gevaarlijke geopolitieke periode en de Westerse mainstreammedia spelen daarin een dubieuze, opzwepende en kwalijke rol als instrument van blinde propaganda. Al 3 jaar storten deze MSM dagelijks de grootst mogelijke onzin over de bevolking uit als het om de proxyoorlog in de Oekraine gaat. Het is onmogelijk dat vrijwel alle MSM in het collectieve Westen dit onafhankelijk van elkaar en zonder centrale regie doen. Alle krantenkoppen en de interpretaties van de...

This volume begins with an overview of the context, course and aftermath of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The documents in Part Two include 'official' sources such as royal edits and magistrates' reports, but also popular songs, polemics, and selections from memoirs and other eye-witness accounts and visual documents.

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour.

From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move...

With a new foreword by Tim Cornell

'Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?' - Polybius, Greek Historian

The city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard's definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar ge...