"Bureaucrats of Liberation" narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project’s network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting ...

It is the paradox at the heart of the Dutch Republic: how could a state emerge from resistance to political slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a colonial empire that promoted slavery all over the world? Slavery and the Dutch State shows how the modern Dutch state and its predecessors were complicit in colonial slavery. It describes the roles of various actors, such as enslaved people, administrators and merchants in the Netherlands and the colonized societies. More tha...

World history is written with the blood of the terrific losses Napoleons coalition. It least half a million coalition soldiers never returned home. Also the costs for the Russian army as well as the Russian population was shocking.

Together with the loss of his soldiers, the Tsar had to accept a loss in human lives of at least 500.000 of his countrymen, so that the total cost of this failed adventure was more than one million casualties.

The campaign was doomed from the first phase.The lo...

Wist U dat de beroemde zwarte Amerikaanse vrijheidsstrijder Sojourner Truth als slavin van een Nederlandstalige slaveneigenaar werd geboren en tot haar tiende jaar Nederlands sprak? Of dat de Nederlanders tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen naar Noord Amerika brachten in schepen van de West Indische Compagnie? Deze verrassende gids toont de sporen van Nederlandse aanwezigheid in New York, de stad en de staat. Het accent ligt op het Nederlands bewind in Nieuw Amsterdam en Nieuw Nederland in zeventien...

Between the years 1939 - 1945, over 3,500 officers wore the uniform of General (or Admiral) in one of the branches of the German Armed Forces: the Army, Navy, Air Force and SS. "The Fallen Generals" is an analysis of the 1000 senior German officers who died in World War II and its aftermath. The various chapters deal with officers killed in action, those executed as a result of their involvement in the July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler, Generals who committed suicide during the war or immedi...

Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of th...

The battle cry ‘Bersiap!’ resounded in numerous cities and towns across Indonesia during the first months following the declaration of independence on August 17, 1945. Heard from all sides, this call to ‘stand by’ for the young nation’s fight for freedom marked the start of the Indonesian national revolution, heralding a period of extreme violence. These acts of violence were aimed primarily against civilians and served no military purpose. Resonance of Violence outlines the dynamic...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “Warlords of the German Empire, 1914 - 1918” contains the biographies of ninety senior German generals and admirals, and allied (Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman) officers who held honorary German rank during World War I. Included among these, by virtue of the ranks that they held in the German armed forces, are monarchs and royal princes of various German ...

They get married at the Utrecht synagogue two weeks after meeting for the first time. The bride’s earlier fiancé has taken his life during the first week of the occupation. With many other Jewish Dutchmen the groom’s parents have already been arrested, before being transported to extermination camps. More than a hundred friends and family, many with a yellow Star of David, attend the reception. The cou-ple escape twice from the Dutch Theatre where the Germans hold Jews in custody pending...

The Me163 ‘Komet’ was the world’s first operational rocket plane, a milestone in military aviation history.

This book focuses mainly on the story of 6 American fighter pilots who each had a chance to achieve one victory over the fastest aircraft of the Luftwaffe.

Author Bart Vandamme (b. 1964) has been nurturing a passion for speed records in aviation for several years. After The Fastest Man in the World, this is his second book on this extraordinary subject.