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Five Journeys through the Arctic and a new Russia in search of Willem Barents
0€ 24,95This is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union.
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Flag Officers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867 – 1918
0€ 39,95Vitéz Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over fifty years, using resources that span the globe. His latest book, “Flag Officers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867 – 1918”, contains the military biographies of almost 4,500 generals and admirals who served the Dual Monarchy during the fifty-one years of its existence, ending with their participation in World War I (1914-1918) and the abolition of the Empire at the war’s end.
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Flying Memories
0€ 19,95This is the story of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. At the outbreak of the war the R.F.C. concisted of only four squadrons organised for active service. The squadrons were concentrated at Farnborough under the command of Brigade-General Sir David Henderson. The unites were dispatched to France in 1914. In France they started the War in the Air. S.O.Bradshaw tells their story. Lt. H.D. Harvey Kelly was privileged to be the first R.F.C. pilot to arrive in France and landed in Amiens. He was killed om April 29 th 1917. Flying Memories of Stanley Orton Bradshaw brings back the glory days of the pilots of 1914-1918.
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Forgotten children
0€ 24,95On a cold Monday morning in March 1945, just after the hunger winter, children and their parents gathered on a dock in Waddinxveen. The malnourished children are leaving on a boat to Drenthe, where there still is food. They don’t know how long they will be away or where they are heading. But they trust the minister and they the need for food is high. The children have become refugees of war in their own country.
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Heinrich Himmler
0€ 29,95Heinrich Himmler, one of the most infamous mass murderers of all time, was originially from a conservative and Catholic family in Bavaria. Later he would break away from the church.
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Homosexuality in Africa
0€ 16,95Plagues of locusts, drought and ebola. In Africa homosexuals are getting the blame for everything. It’s open season. Homosexuality is called ‘un-African’, ‘in direct conflict with its own distinctive culture’, a ‘western disease’. What’s the motivation behind those leaders who are fighting to keep their continent ‘morally pure’?
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Horthy and the battle for the Hungarian nation state
0€ 19,95Hungary rose as a nation state after the First World War, from the ashes of the Dual Monarchy. State regent and admiral without a fleet, Miklós Horthy, played a crucial role herein. The path to independence was far from simple for the Hungarians. Shortly after the First World War the communists staged a coup and the Entente Powers, and in particular the Pan-Europeans amongst them, tried thereafter to reinstate the Habsburg Empire.
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Hungary 1944-1945
0€ 24,95The book describes Hungary during World War II on the basis of Hitler’s most important political principles, namely the acquisition of ‘Lebensraum’ (Living space) in which raw materials, oil in particular, were vital. Another tragic subject discussed is the destruction of the last remaining Jewish community in Europe.
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Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS
0€ 21,95At the end of 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, an idea of collaboration with the Islamic peoples of the Soviet Union arose among the Germans.
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Jesus was Ceasar
0€ 32,00The question is: Is Jesus Divus Julius? Is Jesus the historical figure of Divus Julius, the god to which Julius Caesar was elevated? The iconography of Caesar do not fit our idea of him. In our minds Caesar is a field marshall and a dictator. However, authentic images portray the idea of the clementia Caesaris, a clement Caesar.
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John Kay
0€ 29,95Early 1945. On the run for the Soviet Army, Elsbeth arrives as a desperate war refugee with her nine-month-old toddler Joachim in the bombed out State of Thuringia. That part of Germany will soon be occupied by the American Armed Forces. Although, by a strange twist of fate, she will end up in the Russian zone and she is stuck behind the Iron Curtain. Elsbeth is afraid for her son’s future. He follows his dream in music and less than twenty years later he will score a huge hit with Born To Be Wild, introducing a new rage with his band Steppenwolf: hard “metal” rock. John Kay, as he is called by then, will become the most distinct rock singer ever born in Germany.
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Logic and Islam – Part II: Scientific issues
0€ 24,95In part II of this book series Logic and Islam, we answer the main question: can science prove that the Holy Quran is from Almighty God and has a divine origin? To answer this question, we gathered 77 scientific miracles from the Holy Quran. These miracles are scientific issues that have been revealed 1400 years ago and proven to be correct through our modern science and technology. We present each scientific issue from revelation and historical points of view, by comparing the year of its revelation with that of its discovery by modern science. The 77 scientific issues are grouped in six different categories: 1) astronomical issues, 2) earth science issues, 3) medical and biological issues, 4) animal and plant issues, 5) physics issues and 6) historical issues.
