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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...
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
2024 || Hardcover || Paul Pettitt || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Histories of Nations
How Their Identities Were Forged
2024 || Paperback || Peter Furtado || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A unique lens through which to view the modern world: 28 insider accounts of national histories, now available in B-format paperback.
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Mexico
From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
2024 || Paperback || Michael D Coe e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Israel
2024 || Hardcover || Daniel Gordis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Israel is a tiny state, and yet since its creation, it has captured the world's attention, earned its admiration, and, often, been the object of its opprobrium. Why is so much of the international community focused on a small country like Israel? Why are Israelis so deeply divided on so many key issues? Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future?Weaving together historical documents, letters, and interviews with his own intimate knowledge of the country, Daniel Go...
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
2024 || Paperback || Charlie English || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Book of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS
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The Ancient Greeks
Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Edith Hall || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? This title offers a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, and more.
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The Price of Glory
Verdun 1916
2024 || Paperback || Alistair Horne || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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.
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
2024 || Paperback || Giles Milton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century
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