On Five Dollars a Day - 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...

Blue-Water Empire

Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger. Britain has...

Was Niemand Hat, Find Ich Bei Dir

Frankfurt is Germany's literary capital. Starting with the Passion plays of the 14th Century - Guenderrode, von Arnim, Goethe, Klinger and Borne to the Suhrkamp culture and their authors: the river ci...

Ealing and Hanwell Past

Taste

Along the way, Kate Colquhoun asks and answers a fascinating range of questions from the weighty to the lighthearted. Did the Romans use pepper? How did the Black Death lead to the beginning of rural...

Translating Audio Description Scripts

Translating audio description scripts from foreign into source language seems to be a tempting alternative strategy of creating audio description scripts in those countries where audio description is...

Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic

Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic provides an accessible introduction to Caesar's life and public career. It outlines the main phases of his career with reference to prominent...

Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1

Boek Afghanistan, geschreven door Dr M Halim Tanwir, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Not Perfect

From Elizabeth LaBan, the acclaimed author of The Restaurant Critic's Wife, comes a captivating and very funny novel about a wife and mother's fall from grace, and why keeping up appearances is not he...