Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (148)
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On Mysticism
The Experience of Ecstasy
2025 || Paperback || Simon Critchley || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's most engaging and inventive philosopher
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Final Solution
The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
2024 || Paperback || David Cesarani || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An intelligent, comprehensive and authoritate history of the Holocaust from one of our finest historians.
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Rubicon
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
2024 || Paperback || Tom Holland || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ...This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, GUARDIAN
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Persian Fire
The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
2024 || Paperback || Tom Holland || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.
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Bloodlands
THE book to help you understand today’s Eastern Europe
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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.
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Belonging
The Story of the Jews 1492–1900
2024 || Paperback || Simon Schama || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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.
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The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches
2024 || Paperback || Brian MacArthur || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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...
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Banned Books
2024 || Hardcover || DK || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Imagining England's Past
Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
2024 || Hardcover || Susan Owens || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Complete Tutankhamun
100 Years of Discovery
2024 || Hardcover || Nicholas Reeves || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A fully updated and revised edition of a classic bestseller: the definitive guide to Tutankhamun and his tomb - what it contained, why, and what it means today.
On 4 November 1922, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's long search in Egypt's Valley of the Kings drew to a triumphant close: Tutankhamun's tomb had been found. As news of the discovery spread, and as images of the breathtaking treasures began to circulate, this once-obscure pharaoh would capture the imagination of the enti...