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...

Peoples who spoke Germanic languages told us in their own words, symbols and artefacts how they experienced people, animals, plants and the world in which they lived. They did this in the form of sagas and legends about gods, elves, giants, dwarfs and other mythological creatures, and in stories about legendary events that made a deep impression on them. Since the Migration Period (c. 300 – 600 AD), these stories have been written down in several Germanic languages, including Old Norse, Old...

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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.

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