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Jennifer Saint Elektra
Drie vrouwen uit de Griekse mytholgie vertellen vanuit hun achtergrond over de Trojaanse Oorlog en de gevolgen hiervan.
Engels | 341 pagina's | Wildfire, London | 2022
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Arne Zuidhoek Achille Lauro
The Italian cruise ship Willem Ruys was built between 1939 and 1947. When it was sold to the Italian Lauro Organization in 1966, it was renamed after the company owner Achille Lauro. After being hijacked by Palestinian warriors (PLO), in October 1985, the blue liner and cruiser made international headlines. Swept by a catastrophic fire Achille Lauro sank December 2, 1994, off the Somalian coast. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 25 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Arne Zuidhoek Normandie
Her novel design and lavish interiors led many to consider her the greatest of ocean liners. Despite this, Normandie was not a commercial success. During service the flagship of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings and held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing at several points during her service career. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 36 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Bert Lamers America
The s.s. 'America' was an ocean liner which entered service in 1940 for the United States Lines. She was designed by the famous naval architect William Francis Gibbs. In the 54 years between her introduction and her wrecking in 1994, she had eight different owners (of which one twice) and sailed under the names of 'America' (carrying this name three different times), 'West Point', 'Australis', 'Italis', 'Noga', 'Alferdoss' and 'American Star'. She served most in passenger service as s.s. 'America'...
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 29 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Marcelle Kellermann The Interpreter
This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 4 uur 33 minuten (202 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Saskia Sarginson How it ends
Kort na aankomst in Engeland krijgt de familie Delaney te maken met grote tegenslagen en is dochter Hedy de enige die verder moet.
Fictie | Familieroman
Engels | 376 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2018
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Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension
Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...
Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lisa Howorth Summerlings
Washington, Connor Lane, 1959. Hier wonen mensen uit alle delen van de wereld die gevlucht zijn in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en ieder zijn eigen trauma heeft. Vier kinderen uit problematische gezinnen vormen een hechte vriendengroep.
Fictie | Historische roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 243 pagina's | Doubleday, New York | 2019
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Jantinus Mulder S-class destroyer Piet Hein ex HMS Serapis
Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1941, the destroyers of the 5th Emergency Flotilla became known as S-class and served as fleet and convoy escorts in World War II. In the last months of the war, three were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy for service in the Far East. HMS Serapis was renamed HNLMS Piet Hein and served in the Indonesian War of Independence and saw action in the Korean War. She was sold for scrap in 1962. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Jack Strong
Tijdens de Koude Oorlog besluit een Poolse kolonel als spion te gaan werken voor de CIA om de wereld te behoeden voor een nucleair conflict.
Fictie | Thriller
Film
Hugo Grotius Annals of the war in the Low Countries
The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a contrarian view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 63 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
Chris Kraus Torpor
Een Amerikaans echtpaar reist in 1991 naar Roemenië om daar een weeskind te adopteren
Fictie
Engels | 292 pagina's | Tuskar Rock Press, London | 2017
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
The Vietnam war
Verhalen van gewone Amerikanen en Vietnamezen over hun ervaringen in de Vietnamoorlog, aangevuld met foto's en filmmateriaal.
Non-fictie
Film
We werden honderd jaar ouder
dichters over de Eerste Wereldoorlog
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | Frans | Duits | 355 pagina's | Davidsfonds, Leuven | 2013
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Cold war Mary
ideologies, politics, Marian devotional culture
One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
The deer hunter
Enkele Amerikaanse vrienden maken samen de gruwelen van de oorlog in Vietnam mee
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Film
Kevin C. Powers The yellow birds
Een jonge Amerikaanse soldaat wordt tijdens de Irak-oorlog geconfronteerd met de dood van een van zijn kameraden en worstelt met de vraag of hij hiervoor verantwoordelijk is.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 226 pagina's | Sceptre, London | 2012
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Jeff Lipkes Rehearsals
the German army in Belgium, August 1914
Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liège, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 non-combatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other...
Non-fictie
Engels | 816 pagina's (PDF, 28 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Dee Phillips Vietnam
the story of a marine
Een Amerikaanse jongen (18, ik-figuur) wil dolgraag marinier worden. Hij wordt naar de oorlog in Vietnam gestuurd. Maar het is allemaal niet zo stoer als hij dacht. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 47 pagina's | ReadZone, [Ludlow] | 2014
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