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Archeology of destruction
Investigations at sobibór
2024 || Paperback || Martijn Eickhof e.a. || Uitgeverij WBOOKS
Holocaust, erfgoed en herinnering
Archeologen, historici, kunsthistorici en erfgoedspecialisten bestuderen in dit boek de archeologie van Sobibor.
Tussen 2000 en 2017 voerden archeologen meerdere onderzoek-campagnes uit op het terrein van het voormalig vernietigingskamp Sobibor. De directe aanleiding voor dit onderzoek waren de plannen voor de bouw van een nieuw museum en de herinrichting van het terrein als herinneringsplek. Sobibor geldt als het eerste vernietigingskamp waarvan een substant...
Why War?
2024 || Hardcover || Richard Overy || Pelican
Why has warfare always been part of the human story?
From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?
What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future?
There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.
Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its...
I could tell the story
Life before and survival during the Burma Railway 1940/49
2024 || Paperback || Loot18 || Loot18
I could tell the story - life and survival - 1940/49 (a time document - original title “Ik kon het navertellen”) The true story of Major 'Jan Hanssen' takes place in the period 1940-1949 before and during the Second World War in Asia (Dutch East Indies, Burma and Siam ). Major 'Hanssen', as a Dutch K.N.I.L. officer, documents his experiences as commander of an internment camp; being interned himself at the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe; the Japanese occupation of the Dutch E...
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Our Enemies will Vanish
the Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
2024 || Paperback || Yaroslav Trofimov || Michael Joseph
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
‘Reads like a great novel’ SEBASTIAN JUNGER
‘An instant classic’ STEVE COLL
‘An essential first draft’ ANNE APPLEBAUM
‘Essential reading’ CLARISSA WARD
‘Outstanding’ PETER FRANKOPAN
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has...
November 1942 (Heruitgave)
an Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
2024 || Paperback || Peter Englund || Vintage UK
A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVORAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between came el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa lan...
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Op zoek naar Sobibor
Archaeology of a Death Camp
2024 || Hardcover || Erik Schumacher || Uitgeverij WBOOKS
No one was supposed to find Sobibor ever again. In 1943, when the Nazis shut down the death camp, they destroyed the gas chambers. To cover up pits where they buried their victims’ ashes, they planted trees.
But their attempt to totally erase the camp failed. The marshy ground in an Eastern Polish river valley still held the victims’ last possessions, rusty and buried beneath the soil. From 2007 on, archaeologists dug up tens of thousands of objects on the former camp terrain. Traces in ...
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Arnhem: The Fight To Sustain
2024 || Paperback || Frank Steer || Pen & Sword