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The Great Journeys in History
2024 || Paperback || Robin Hanbury-Tenison || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history.
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Ancestral Journeys
The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
2024 || Paperback || Jean Manco || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? This book brings together the evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history of Europe.
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India
A Short History
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Robinson || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The first book to cover the huge span of India’s history at easily readable length, now available in paperback.
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The War in the West: A New History
Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43
2024 || Paperback || James Holland || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic.
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Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Adventures in Modern Russia
2024 || Paperback || Peter Pomerantsev || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.
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The Bomber Mafia
A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
2024 || Paperback || Malcolm Gladwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
2024 || Paperback || Christopher Clark || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
With great flair and authority, the author describes Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values on which it was built.
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Europe's Tragedy
A New History of the Thirty Years War
2024 || Paperback || Peter H. Wilson || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. This title explains a compelling series of events.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
A Life in Power
2024 || Paperback || Christopher Clark || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book presents a fresh interpretation of this contentious figure, focusing on how his thirty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected Germany, and the rest of Europe.
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Last Days in Old Europe
Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89
2024 || Paperback || Richard Bassett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.