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Sauron Defeated

The History of Middle-Earth 9

2024 || Paperback || Christopher Tolkien || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

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The Social Life of Books

Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

2024 || Paperback || Abigail Williams || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

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The Night Manager

2024 || Paperback || John le Carre || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die.

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On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian

2024 || Paperback || John Marincola || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

This anthology of writings from the ancient world explores how history should be written and what responsibility the historian bears. It ranges from longer pieces, such as the complete essays 'On Thucydides' by Dionysus, 'On the Malice of Herodotus' by Plutarch and the witty 'How to Write History' by Lucian, to key shorter writings by Polybius, Cicero, Xenophon and Pliny the Younger.

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The Written World and the Unwritten World

Collected Non-Fiction

2024 || Paperback || Italo Calvino || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

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Upheaval

How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

2024 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

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Enemies and Neighbours

Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

2024 || Paperback || Ian Black || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age.



Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brings much-needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land.



Beginning in the final years of Ottoman ruleand the British Mandate period, when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition, the book re-examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start. It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; Israel's independence and the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba in Arabic) of 1948; the watershed of the 1967 war; two Intifadas; the Oslo Accords and Israel's shift to the right. It traces how - after five decades of occupation, ever-expanding Jewish settlements and the construction of the West Bank 'separation wall' - hopes for a two-state solution have all but disappeared, and explores what the future might ho...

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Between East and West

Across the Borderlands of Europe

2024 || Paperback || Anne Applebaum || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people.

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Mussolini's War

Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

2024 || Paperback || John Gooch || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

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Flash Boys

Cracking the money code

2024 || Paperback || Michael Lewis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

Tells the story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistle blowers who tried to stop them.