The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 - 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...

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...

Nederlands van Middeleeuwen tot Gouden Eeuw

Deze tweede, herziene druk van Nederlands van Middeleeuwen tot Gouden Eeuw biedt een praktische cursus Middelnederlands en Vroegnieuwnederlands. In het grammaticadeel worden de belangrijkste taalkenme...

De Gouden Eeuw

Nederland in de zeventiende eeuw is volstrekt anders dan nu. En toch gebeurt er van alles in die eeuw dat wij herkennen als modern of van actuele betekenis: in Nederland, in Amsterdam en op wereldscha...

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...

City

Delivering, collecting, transporting and recycling! Lift the flap to see each vehicle busy at work. Perfect for guessing, prediction and memory skills - and simply joining in!

Fire Catcher

Hidden in London is a legendary power. A fabled chest guards secrets more precious than gold.But in 1666 secrets are deadly, and London is burning Charlie Tuesday is the city s best thief taker. But o...

The Country without a Post Office

Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets. -John Ashbery