De Sovjet-Unie was naast een politiek revolutionaire kracht ook een militaire macht van wereldrang. De communistische ideologie werd daar waar nodig op de punt van het bajonet ingevoerd. In deze themabundel van ATW staan we stil bij Sovjetinvasies en andere operaties waarmee Moskou de greep op de wereld probeerde te vergroten. Diverse auteurs brengen specifieke historische kwesties voor het voetlicht.

In de serie Aspekt Tweede Wereldoorlog (ATW) zullen geregeld thematische bundels worden same...

De Dover Patrol van de Royal Navy. Het boek beschrijft de bescherming in oorlogstijd van het meest kwetsbare kustgedeelte van de Britse kust, Het Kanaal. De bescherming van de handelsroutes langs de Britse Oost-kust behoorde tot taken van de Britse slagvloot, de Grand Fleet. Deze moest met bases te Scapa Flow en Rosyth, de noordelijke toegang tot de Noordzee bewaken. De zuidelijke toegang tot de Noordzee, Het Kanaal, was een taak geworden van de Britse Admiraliteit. Behalve de han-delsvaart v...

Slavery existed from the earliest societies and played a leading role in world history. For a long time, slavery was portrayed in history books as a fringe phenomenon.

Currently, slavery is receiving a lot of attention and it is rightly being brought out of oblivion. Those who know the history can thereby avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. The book ‘Slavery Throughout World History’ focuses on an overall overview of the phenomenon of slavery in history and it delves deeper i...

The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. This book shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.

In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the evolution of one of the world's greatest cities. From the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals of liberalism are under siege, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually entertaining story of Amsterdam. He also weaves in his own experiences of his adopted home. In...

The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.

A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.