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A Line in the Sand
Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
2024 || Paperback || James Barr || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
2024 || Paperback || Charlie English || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Book of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS
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These Truths
A History of the United States
2024 || Paperback || Jill (Harvard University) Lepore || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
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The Ancient Greeks
Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Edith Hall || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? This title offers a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, and more.
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The Price of Glory
Verdun 1916
2024 || Paperback || Alistair Horne || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. This book shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
2024 || Paperback || Giles Milton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century
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In the Shadow of the Gods
The Emperor in World History
2024 || Paperback || Dominic Lieven || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Cities that Shaped the Ancient World
2024 || Paperback || John Julius Norwich || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.