Books Tagged: History

De last van veel geluk: de geschiedenis van Nederland, 1555-1702 - A.Th. van Deursen I gave the book 4 stars.

1812: Napoleons fatale veldtocht naar Moskou - Adam Zamoyski Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Napoleon. De man achter de mythe - Adam Zamoyski Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Caesar - Adrian Goldsworthy Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire - Adrian Goldsworthy Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC - Adrian Goldsworthy Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Desert War: The classic trilogy on the North African campaign 1940-1943 - Alan Moorehead Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands - Alexander Watson I gave the book 5 stars.

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Anne Applebaum Finished on 8th of August. I gave the book 4 stars.

Gulag - Anne Applebaum Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor - Anthony Everitt Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome - Anthony Everitt Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization - Anthony Everitt Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

De Slag om Arnhem - Antony Beevor Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Churchill - Ashley Jackson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen - Bart Van Loo Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Tegen de terreur - Beatrice de Graaf Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles - Bernard Cornwell Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson I gave the book 4 stars.

Down Under - Bill Bryson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - Bill Bryson I gave the book 1 stars.

Tank Commander: From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close - Bill Close Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 - Brian Fagan Finished on 22nd of December. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Magee I gave the book 2 stars.

On War (Annotated) (1000 Copy Limited Edition) - Carl von Clausewitz Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World - Catherine Nixey Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 - Christopher Clark Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce - Christopher Hibbert Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici - Christopher Hibbert I gave the book 3 stars.

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland - Christopher R. Browning Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

World War II at Sea: A Global History - Craig L. Symonds Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands - Dan Jones I gave the book 4 stars.

The Hollow Crown - Dan Jones Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Plantagenets - Dan Jones Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty - Daron Acemoğlu I gave the book 3 stars.

Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power - David Scott Finished on 24th of May. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy - David E. Hoffman Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age - David E. Sanger Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy - David Graeber Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

1914-1918: The History of the First World War - David Stevenson I gave the book 4 stars.

Koning Willem III: 1817-1890 - Dik van der Meulen Finished on 12th of March. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada - Don Hollway Finished on 6th of January. I gave the book 5 stars.

Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy - Douglas Smith Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

De firma - Duff McDonald Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Spain in Arms: A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939 - E.R. Hooton Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 - Edward Gibbon Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 4-6 - Edward Gibbon I gave the book 4 stars.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Eric H. Cline Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy - Francis Fukuyama Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail - Frank L. Fox Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent - Fred Bridgland Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Vasa: A Swedish Warship - Fred Hocker Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Nobel streven: Het onwaarschijnlijke maar waargebeurde verhaal van ridder Jan van Brederode - Frits van Oostrom Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Borgias: The Hidden History - G.J. Meyer Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty - G.J. Meyer Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die - Garrett M. Graff Finished on 1st of December. I gave the book 5 stars.

1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance - Gavin Menzies I gave the book 2 stars.

The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 - Geoffrey Wawro Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century - George Friedman I gave the book 2 stars.

Nach Holland - Gerard Groeneveld Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth - Gitta Sereny Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

November 1918: Triumph and Tragedy in the Final Days of WW1 - Gordon Brook-Shepherd Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front - Günter K. Koschorrek Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard - Guy de la Bédoyère Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

History of the world in photographs - H.F. Ullmann I gave the book 4 stars.

Eerste Wereldoorlog - H.P. Willmott I gave the book 4 stars.

Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 - Henrik O. Lunde Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger I gave the book 4 stars.

Somme: Into the Breach - Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Why The West Rules For Now - Ian Morris Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII - Jack El-Hai Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America - Jack N. Rakove I gave the book 3 stars.

In het diepste geheim - Jaime Karremann Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 - James Ford Rhodes Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - James M. McPherson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Innocence Slaughtered: Gas and the Transformation of Warfare and Society - Jean Pascal Zanders Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Koning Willem I: 1772-1843 - Jeroen Koch Finished on 27th of January. I gave the book 3 stars.

Koning Willem II: 1792-1849 - Jeroen van Zanten Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death - Jim Frederick Finished on 3rd of October. I gave the book 5 stars.

Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection - John Man I gave the book 3 stars.

1812: War with America - Jon Latimer Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

De Republiek: 1477-1806 - Jonathan I. Israel Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Bismarck: A Life - Jonathan Steinberg Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Capital - Karl Marx Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

The Last Days of the Incas - Kim MacQuarrie Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World - Laura Spinney Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Revolution Betrayed - Leon Trotsky Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory - Lisa Jardine Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

De ware vrijheid: de levens van Johan en Cornelis de Witt - Luc Panhuysen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Het monsterschip: Maarten Tromp en de armada van 1639 - Luc Panhuysen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Rampjaar 1672: Hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte - Luc Panhuysen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 1 stars.

The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union - Luuk van Middelaar Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour - Marc Hyden Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Norman Conquest - Marc Morris Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Finished on 28th of May. I gave the book 2 stars.

Wereldheerschappij - Mark Mazower Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942 - Mark Zuehlke Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Boer War - Martin Bossenbroek Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Falklands War - Martin Middlebrook I gave the book 4 stars.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 - Max Hastings Finished on 17th of August. I gave the book 5 stars.

Catastrophe - Max Hastings Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Korean War - Max Hastings Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Korean War - Max Hastings I gave the book 5 stars.

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 - Max Hastings I gave the book 5 stars.

Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy 1943-1945 - Michael Carver Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Bismarck's First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864 - Michael Embree Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster - Michael Mueller Finished on 29th of December. I gave the book 5 stars.

Aan de rand van de wereld - Michael Pye Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash I gave the book 5 stars.

Broeders in oorlog – vijanden in vrede - Mike Harmsen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Soviet Century - Moshe Lewin Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups - Naunihal Singh Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

De grote oorlogen - Niall Ferguson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe - Norman Davies Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Te vuur en te zwaard - Olaf van Nimwegen I gave the book 4 stars.

Willem V De laatste stadhouder van Nederland (1748-1806) - Olaf van Nimwegen Finished on 17th of July. I gave the book 4 stars.

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Crimea: The Last Crusade - Orlando Figes Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Age of Athelstan: Britain's Forgotten History - Paul Hill I gave the book 3 stars.

The Spartans - Paul Cartledge Finished on 4th of December. I gave the book 4 stars.

Legions in Crisis: Transformation of the Roman Soldier AD 192–284 - Paul Elliott Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 - Peter Baxter Finished on 8th of August. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy - Peter H. Wilson Finished on 16th of December. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders - Peter Heather Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Heinrich Himmler - Peter Longerich Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Alexander the Great - Philip Freeman Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World - Philip Parker Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Black Death - Philip Ziegler Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Republic - Plato Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Selous Scouts - Top Secret War - R.F. Reid-Daly Finished on 4th of August. I gave the book 5 stars.

De brandende kampongs van Generaal Spoor - Rèmy Limpach Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

De Zwijger: Het leven van Willem van Oranje - René van Stipriaan Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy - Richard Freiherr von Rosen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization - Richard Miles Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare - Robert Harris Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Ivan the Terrible - Robert Payne Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Constantinople - Roger Crowley Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 - Roger Crowley Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle - Roy A. Adkins Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

De binnenplaats van Babel - Salomon Kroonenberg Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Peter van Uhm: ik koos het wapen - Sander Koenen Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War - Saul David Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine - Serhii Plokhy Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - Simon Schama I gave the book 3 stars.

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe - Simon Winder Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival - Stanislav J. Kirschbaum Finished on 10th of July. I gave the book 3 stars.

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking I gave the book 3 stars.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda - Susan Bachrach Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman I gave the book 4 stars.

The Beginnings of Rome: Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-264 BC) - Tim J. Cornell Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Frederick the Great: King of Prussia - Timothy C.W. Blanning Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 3 stars.

Inquisition: The Reign of Fear - Toby Green Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire - Tom Holland Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660 - Trevor Royle Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Boudica: A Groundbreaking Biography of the True Warrior Queen - Vanessa Collingridge Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 2 stars.

Acht dagen in mei: De laatste week van het Derde Rijk - Volker Ullrich Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 - Volker Ullrich Finished on 21st of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 (Hitler Biographies) - Volker Ullrich Finished on 9th of April. I gave the book 5 stars.

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias - W. Bruce Lincoln Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

Verdun 1916: The Deadliest Battle of the First World War - William F. Buckingham Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 5 stars.

A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 - William R. Trotter Finished on 30th of November. I gave the book 4 stars.

The Last Panther - The Halbe Kessel 1945 - Wolfgang Faust Finished on 20th of June. I gave the book 5 stars.

Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir - Wolfgang Faust Finished on 15th of June. I gave the book 5 stars.

21 lessen voor de 21ste eeuw - Yuval Noah Harari I gave the book 1 stars.