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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
2024 || Paperback || Richard Miles || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of Mediterranean - before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their great capital city was razed to the ground, burning for six days and nights, its inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved. This title charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.
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Hundred Days
The End of the Great War
2024 || Paperback || Nick Lloyd || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.
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Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
2024 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? This book deals with these questions.
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Dark Persuasion
A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
2024 || Paperback || Joel E. Dimsdale || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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What the Greeks Did for Us
2024 || Paperback || Tony Spawforth || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture
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The Bridge
A Journey Between Orient and Occident
2024 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe.
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The First Crusade
The Call from the East
2024 || Paperback || Peter Frankopan || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
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Resistance
The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
2024 || Paperback || Halik Kochanski || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Middle Kingdoms
A New History of Central Europe
2024 || Paperback || Martyn Rady || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.