Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World - Prijzen

Germania

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up w...

Colossus Reborn

In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941....

Deliverance at Diepholz

With candor and humor, American infantryman Jack Dower describes his narly fifteen months spent as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich after his company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, I...

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes...

De Nederlandse Revolutie

Wij Nederlanders zijn geen heftig volkje. We zoeken steeds naar compromissen. We polderen en radicaliteit vinden we maar vies. Dit beeld hangen wij graag van onszelf op. Maar klopt het ook, als we in...

Scandal & Betrayal

Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region

This is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and m...

Good King Richard?

Richard III, the so-called 'last English King of England' and the wicked uncle of popular tradition, is the most controversial and enigmatic of monarchs. Still the Great Debate between traditionalists...

Starr vor Angst

Carry Slee versteht es meisterhaft, "schwierige" Themen für Jugendliche spannend und nachvollziehbar zu verpacken. Längst gehören ihre in der "Life"-Reihe erschienenen Romane zum Unterrichtsrepertoire...

Geronimo Stilton Special Edition

It's a curious case for Geronimo in this special edition adventure!Rancid ricotta! Something strange was happening in New Mouse City. Rodents were suddenly getting sick with stomachaches, hiccups, and...

Myths of the Cold War

Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, e...

The Fast and the Frozen

Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure!A visiting rodent has arrived in Old Mouse City with astounding news. On his recent journey to a cold,...