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Normal Women
900 Years of Making History
2023 || Paperback || Philippa Gregory || Veltman Distributie Import Books
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history.
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Femina
The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
2023 || Paperback || Janina Ramirez || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones
'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 ...
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Femina
2022 || Paperback || Janina Ramirez || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones
'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: ...
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Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year
2021 || Paperback || Anonymous || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was infl...
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The Race to the Future
The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century
2023 || Paperback || Kassia St Clair || Veltman Distributie Import Books
10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution.
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Petrol is almost impossible to find, there are barely any roads, a...
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Nuclear Folly
A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2022 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*
'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, Independent
The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
For more than four weeks in the au...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
2024 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS
Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plo...
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The West
A New History of an Old Idea
2023 || Paperback || Naoise Mac Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez
'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman
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A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.
We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rh...
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The Story of Russia
'An excellent short study'
2023 || Paperback || Orlando Figes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History
'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM
'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
'A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'[An] excellent short study' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
'If you really want to understand Putin'...
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The World
A Family History
2023 || Paperback || Simon Sebag Montefiore || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A thrilling, epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective, from the prize-winning, bestselling historian