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The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
Faces from Ancient Egypt
2024 || Hardcover || Euphrosyne Doxiadis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Anthropocene
A New Introduction to World Prehistory
2024 || Paperback || Joy McCorriston e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world.
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The Greeks in Asia
2024 || Hardcover || John Boardman || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Recounting the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise of Islam, this book examines a wealth of art and artifacts as well as literary sources to reveal the remarkable influence of Greek culture.
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Scotland's Forgotten Past
A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
2024 || Hardcover || Alistair Moffat || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Barbarians at the Wall
The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China
2024 || Paperback || John Man || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Outside Asia precious little is known of their rich history, but new evidence reframes our understanding of the indelible mark they left on a vast region stretching from Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China.
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The Stasi Poetry Circle
The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
2024 || Paperback || Philip Oltermann || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society
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NINE
2024 || Paperback || GWEN STRAUSS || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
As the Second World War raged across Europe, and the Nazi regime tightened its reign of horror and oppression, nine women, some still in their teens, joined the French and Dutch Resistance. Caught out in heroic acts against the brutal occupiers, they were each tortured and sent east into Greater Germany to a concentration camp, where they formed a powerful friendship. In 1945, as the war turned against Hitler, they were forced on a Death March, facing starvation and almost certain death. Dete...
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Waterloo
The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
2024 || Hardcover || Bernard Cornwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller `A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings `Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.'
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The Making of Europe
Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350
2024 || Paperback || Robert Bartlett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what this did to shape the continent and the world.
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
2024 || Hardcover || Larry Loftis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII?at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.
The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remar...