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Roxanne Veletzos The girl they left behind
a novel
Een Joods meisje in Roemenië dat aan het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog te vondeling wordt gelegd, groeit tijdens de oorlog en de daaropvolgende Koude Oorlog op bij een rijk echtpaar.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 353 pagina's | Atrria Books, New York | 2018
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Piers Torday The lost magician
Simon (14), Patricia (13), Evelyn (10) en Larry (8) worden na de oorlog door hun ouders naar het landhuis Barfield Hall gestuurd waar ze de zomer doorbrengen. Via de oude bibliotheek komen de kinderen terecht in Folio, een magische wereld waar het oorlog is. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Sprookjes
Engels | 331 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2018
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Patrick Ness And the ocean was our sky
De jonge walvis Bathsheba vertelt hoe een school walvissen in een felle oorlog is verwikkeld met de mensheid. Door haar gesprekken met hun gevangene, walvisvaarder Demetrius, gaat Bathsheba zich steeds meer afvragen waarom mensen en walvissen elkaar bestrijden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman
Engels | 158 pagina's | Walker Books, London | 2018
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Sven Hassel Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino, the sacred monastery north west of Naples. The Germans have built massive defense positions. The battle of Monte Cassino in the winter and spring of 1944 turns into an indescribable hell for both the defending and attacking forces. The allies bring into action all planes, artillery and armors from many nations. The German forces are led by the best elite troops. Among them is the 27th Panzer-regiment - the penal regiment. No one expects any of them to survive - but some of them do......
Engels | 8 uur 44 minuten (386 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Assignment Gestapo
It feels as if the entire area is blown up. A long rumbling explosion shakes the German position. Then an infernal scream sounds. Through flashes of fire, they see Tiny’s huge silhouette with the light grey bowler on his head. He is standing by the end of the enemy trench with his machine gun resting on his hip. The tracer streak projectiles shoot out of the muzzle. Bewildered shapes flee in panic. - What a bunch of devils, the Russian lieutenant exclaims in admiration. "A BRILLIANT SVEN HAZEL,...
Engels | 12 uur 31 minuten (547 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel The Commissar
Heide wails, jumps up and lands on the other side of the trench, where he slides through the mud like a bulldozer. Our tank starts backing up in full speed. Porta has clearly also spotted the madness lying ahead in wait of spreading death and mutilation. Nothing travels as fast as the rumor that the front troops have hit the dreaded mines. Suddenly everything goes quiet. Even the heavy Maxim gun stops. Everyone holds their breath and waits for the mine to go off. " THE CERTAIN SENSE OF DRAMATIC...
Engels | 11 uur 49 minuten (556 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Comrades of War
We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don’t know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on... "THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS GOTTEN HIS...
Engels | 11 uur 27 minuten (538 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Marchbattalion
A special command from the convict regiment, wearing Russian uniforms, take over four Russian T-34 tanks. Remote reconnaissance far behind the Russian lines in Caucasus. The year is 1942. Hour for hour, the tanks roll eastward. Several times, Russian departments challenge them. We follow the soldiers in their desperate struggle to find their way back to the German lines. The distances are great, the friends are few and death is always right behind them... "HASSEL IS ONE OF THE BEST EUROPEAN WRITERS,...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel OGPU Prison
At least one battalion of flame-throwers is swinging around like a pack of crazy wild boars. Long, flaming red tongues of fire are hissing from the towers, charring every living thing. From the GPU-prison stream shoals of red prisoners. A barrage of incredible dimensions is hammering down behind the Germans. It seems like the Russians have guessed that they are pondering an escape and want to stop it with an impenetrable wall of fire, spreading as far as the eye can see. " SVEN HASSEL IS AN OUTSTANDING...
Engels | 11 uur 59 minuten (525 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Court Martial
The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines. " AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES...
Engels | 11 uur 23 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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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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Fred van Iersel Rechtvaardige oorlog-rechtvaardige vrede
kerken over vrede
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 339 pagina's | Eburon, Delft | 2018
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Albertine Bloemendal Reframing the diplomat
Ernst van der Beugel and the Cold War Atlantic community
Non-fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2018
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Seeking meaning, seeking justice in a post-Cold War world
Non-fictie
Engels | 291 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2018
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Robert Niebuhr The search of Cold War legitimacy
foreign policy and Tito's Yugolsavia
Non-fictie
Engels | 248 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2018
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Neal Asher The soldier
De rivaliteit tussen veel verschillende groepen leidt tot een interstellaire oorlog waarbij een supersoldaat het heelal dreigt te vernietigen.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 448 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2018
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Bouko de Groot Dutch navies of the 80 years'war 1568-1648
Non-fictie
Engels | 48 pagina's | Osprey, Oxford | 2018
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Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica
De gebeurtenissen die voor Troje plaatsvonden tussen het einde van de Ilias en het begin van de Odyssee.
Engels | Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | 745 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2018
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Niu Jun The Cold War and the origins of foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
Non-fictie
Engels | 357 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2018
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Ben Macintyre The spy and the traitor
the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
Biografie van de Russische dubbelspion Oleg Gordievskij (1938).
Non-fictie
Engels | 364 pagina's | Broadway Books, New York | 2020
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