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The Journals of Captain Cook
2024 || Paperback || Captain James Cook || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. This title tells the story of these voyages.
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Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
2024 || Paperback || Anne Applebaum || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism.
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The Boundless Sea
A Human History of the Oceans
2024 || Paperback || David Abulafia || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Berlin
Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century
2024 || Paperback || Sinclair McKay || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
2024 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
A Pelican Introduction
2024 || Paperback || Orlando Figes || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.
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Conversations With Stalin
2024 || Paperback || Milovan Djilas || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev.
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Discoveries
The Voyages of Captain Cook
2024 || Paperback || Nicholas Thomas || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Auschwitz
A History
2024 || Paperback || Sybille Steinbacher || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutat...
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The Little Book of History
2024 || Paperback || DK || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.