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Fly Away Paul
The extraordinary story of how Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings
2023 || Paperback || Lesley-Ann Jones || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The remarkable account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings and ascent into solo stardom, by renowned music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published, until now.
A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on...
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Great-Uncle Harry
A Tale of War and Empire
2023 || Paperback || Michael Palin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.
The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First...
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Windswept & Interesting
2021 || Paperback || Billy Connolly || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life.
Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is a remarkable story of success against all the odds.
Billy found his escape first as an apprentice welder in the shipyards of the River Clyde. Later he became a folk musician - a 'rambling man' ...
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Cold Crematorium
Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni
'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'
JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans
'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle
'It should be required reading'
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated
When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...
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Huygens and Hofwijck
The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens
2022 || Hardcover || Kees van der Leer e.a. || AUP Wetenschappelijk || met inkijkexemplaar
Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn’s son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists.
At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum op...
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The World's Biggest Cash Machine
Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul
1900 || Paperback || Chris Blackhurst || Veltman Distributie Import Books
&b>In &i>The World’s Biggest Cash Machine,&/i> award-winning journalist Chris Blackhurst weaves together iconic personalities, sporting drama and boardroom deals to deliver a must-read narrative on the world&/b>’&b>s most influential football club.&/b>
Fulvia
The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
2025 || Hardcover || Jane Draycott || Atlantic Books
A sparkling biography of the legendary Fulvia of Ancient Rome, described by Cicero as 'a thoroughly rapacious woman'.
The Step to world peace
The Salvation
2021 || Hardcover || Lancar Ida-Bagus || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
As a human being, I feel obligated to my fellow human beings to speak up and condemn religious falsehoods because I believe that my indifference to the suffering of others makes me just as guilty as those responsible for the suffering of others, and therefore, the best I can do is to condemn and shame those who take pleasure in abusing those who use religions as a predicate.
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A wink in the darkness
my life behind invisible bars
2016 || Paperback || Manja Croiset || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Manja Croiset. Amsterdam, July 5,1946.The youngest of three daughters SHOAH survivors. Her father, was in concentration camps because of underground printing, including HET PAROOL started as a resistance newspaper. Her mother lost her entire family-(grand)parents, brother and sister-during this tragic period of history. Paula Kool March 11, 1918 - May 11, 2012.Her father,Odo Croiset April 24,1915- November 18,2011 As a girl, she felt invisible, with no right to fear or sorrow because of the t...
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USAlogies
American History in Poems
2023 || Paperback || J P Dalmeida || Bookmundo.pt
In this book the history of the United States of America is told in poems, the author not having made any political analysis of the events, because it is a matter of telling the facts, the most important events and personalities of the country, in the author's perspective. It is a book of interest, historical, cultural and educational.