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Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (209)
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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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.
The Light of Asia
A History of Western Fascination with the East
2024 || Hardcover || Christopher Harding || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The Greeks in Asia
2024 || Hardcover || John Boardman || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Recounting the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise of Islam, this book examines a wealth of art and artifacts as well as literary sources to reveal the remarkable influence of Greek culture.
Scotland's Forgotten Past
A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
2024 || Hardcover || Alistair Moffat || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Barbarians at the Wall
The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China
2024 || Paperback || John Man || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Outside Asia precious little is known of their rich history, but new evidence reframes our understanding of the indelible mark they left on a vast region stretching from Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China.
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
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...
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.
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.