Understanding Multiculturalism - 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...

History of the English Speaking Peoples

Covers the days of peace following the downfall of Napoleon to the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning of the present era, including the British Empire at its highest peak, the creation of the d...

Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap Van

In deze uitgave vindt de lezer informatie over het functioneren van de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap door de eeuwen heen. Mariaverering, liturgie, het begrip Zwanenbroeder, de Reformatie en de ge...

De Witte Roos - I. Scholl

Rampjaar 1672

11 mei 1940. Sir Gerald Dickens, de eminente kleinzoon van de schrijver, neemt het heft in eigen hand. De admiraal zorgt ervoor dat een aantal Nederlandse en Engelse schepen in gereedheid wordt gebrac...

Venice A Maritime Republic

"Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a co...

Entering The Circle

Olga Kharitidi's debut book is a remarkable account of her spiritual adventure in snowbound Siberia. Joining an ailing friend on a spontaneous trip to the Atai Mountains, Dr. Kharitidi is taken into...

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports boo...

By Sword and Plow

In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria,...