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The Stasi Poetry Circle
The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
2024 || Paperback || Philip Oltermann || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society
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NINE
2024 || Paperback || GWEN STRAUSS || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
As the Second World War raged across Europe, and the Nazi regime tightened its reign of horror and oppression, nine women, some still in their teens, joined the French and Dutch Resistance. Caught out in heroic acts against the brutal occupiers, they were each tortured and sent east into Greater Germany to a concentration camp, where they formed a powerful friendship. In 1945, as the war turned against Hitler, they were forced on a Death March, facing starvation and almost certain death. Dete...
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The Making of Europe
Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350
2024 || Paperback || Robert Bartlett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth in Europe during High Middle Ages transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms. This book shows how Europe was itself a product of colonization, as much as it was later a colonizer, and what this did to shape the continent and the world.
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Revolutionary Iran
A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition
2024 || Paperback || Michael Axworthy || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The forty years of Iran's embattled position, commitment to a nuclear programme, and the speculations that the revolution is running down proving time and again to be false, taken stock of by "The Sword Of Persia" author Axworthy.
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Millennium
The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
2024 || Paperback || Tom Holland || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000
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Waterloo
Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny
2024 || Paperback || Tim Clayton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research.
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A Small Town in Ukraine
The place we came from, the place we went back to
2024 || Paperback || Bernard Wasserstein || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Greek Revolution
1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2024 || Paperback || Mark Mazower || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The First Day on the Somme
1 July 1916
2024 || Paperback || Martin Middlebrook || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. This is an account of the blackest day in the history of the British army.
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The Hollow Crown
The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these chaotic years.