• Rebecca Rideal 1666

  plague, war, and hellfire

  Geschiedenis van Engeland in 1666, toen in Londen een pestepidemie heerste, een enorme brand de hoofdstad grotendeels verwoestte en de Engelsen gevoelige nederlagen leden in de Tweede Engels-Nederlandse Zeeoorlog.

  Engels | 285 pagina's | Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York | 2016

  Gedrukt boek

• Robert Gerwarth The vanquished

  why the First World War failed to end

  Geschiedenis van de eerste jaren na de Eerste Wereldoorlog, gekenmerkt door revoluties, burgeroorlogen en grensconflicten.

  Engels | 446 pagina's | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2016

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  Edward Brooke-Hitching The phantom atlas

  the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps

  The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology...

  Engels | 256 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2016

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