De Grote Oorlog Kroniek 1914-1918 is dé serie in Nederland en Vlaanderen met als onderwerp de geschiedschrijving van en reflectie over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De delen van deze serie verschijnen met grote regelmaat, in principe elk halfjaar. Dat wordt mogelijk gemaakt door de samenwerking tussen Uitgeverij Aspekt en de Stichting Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog (SSEW).

In deze Kroniek treft u elf essays aan. Ze bestrijken een breed spectrum van onderwerpen.

Opvallend in deze Kroniek is ho...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph

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The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and hel...

An intelligent, comprehensive and authoritate history of the Holocaust from one of our finest historians.

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour.

A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.

From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move...