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Bart Hofmeester | Ad Hoogerwerf Rotterdam vanuit de wolken
luchtfoto's 1950-1990
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 304 pagina's | Uitgeverij Watermerk, [Lekkerkerk] | 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Bert Lamers SS Australis
The ss 'Australis' was a well known ocean liner which entered service in 1940 as the ss 'America' for the United States Lines. The ship was sold to the Greek Chandris Lines in 1964 and served until 1977 very succesfully on the route Western-Europe-Australia-New Zealand. Later the route became a full round-the-world-service. After her Australian period the liner sailed under the names of 'America' (for the third time), 'Italis', 'Noga', 'Alferdoss' and finally 'American Star'. In this volume of Liners...
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 43 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
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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
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Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Bob Roetering Warship 13
Tripartite Minehunter Haarlem
In the eighties, the Royal Netherlands Navy acquired 15 minehunters of the Alkmaar-class. They were deployed worldwide in conflicts (the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Libyan Sea). In all European waters they exercised and cleared historical ordnance. HNLMS Haarlem represents the rich history of the tripartite minehunters of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 43 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Jantinus Mulder | Henk Visser Dutch Leander frigate Van Speijk
The Van Speijk class frigates were equipped with Dutch electronics/sensors. The British Leander design was chosen to enable rapid construction to replace elderly escorts for ASW duties and NATO patrol. The ships were thoroughly modernised in the late 1970s. Between 1986-1990 all six were transferred to the Indonesian Navy. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Non-fictie
Engels | 72 pagina's (ePub2, 55 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Fred Feddes Bike City Amsterdam
how Amsterdam became the cycling capital of the world
The book Bike City Amsterdam, How Amsterdam became the cycling Capital of the World , by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange, is the first comprehensive inside history of sixty years of successful bicycle activism, policy and culture in Amsterdam. As any visitor knows, the bicycle is omnipresent in the streets of Amsterdam, in the rhythm of its people's lives, and in the city's image. To many outsiders, Amsterdam comes close to being a cyclist's paradise. It wasn't always that way. As in many other...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 66 MB | Bas Lubberhuizen, Amsterdam | 2019
E-book
Jury Smit The little history of the Netherlands for dummies®
Overzicht van de Nederlandse geschiedenis van de prehistorie tot koning Willem-Alexander.
Non-fictie
Engels | 143 pagina's | BBNC uitgevers, Amersfoort | 2016
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Ronald Otter 100 jaar Maastricht van boven
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 176 pagina's | Boekhandel Dominicanen, [Maastricht] | 2024
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Adrian Bliss The greatest nobodies of history
minor characters from major moments
Portretten van op het oog onbelangrijke personen uit de omgeving van een bekende vorst, filosoof of schilder uit de wereldgeschiedenis.
Non-fictie
Engels | 293 pagina's | Century, London | 2024
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Izak van Maldegem Zeeuwse zeehavens vanuit de lucht
Fotoboek met luchtfoto's van havens en overslagterreinen in Zeeland van havenbedrijf Zeeland Seaports.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 128 pagina's | Sky Pictures Fotografie, Arnemuiden | 2014
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Pocket guide for American servicemen to the cities of the Netherlands during World War II
Facsimile-editie van een zakreisgids voor Nederland ten behoeve van Amerikaanse militairen die in de slotfase van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nederland vochten.
Non-fictie
Engels | 52 pagina's | Elsevier, Amsterdam | 2010
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Ellie Seymour Grand hotels of the world
Veertig hotels met grandeur en een rijke historie.
Non-fictie
Engels | 255 pagina's | Luster, [Antwerpen] | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Eva de Klerk | Carolien Feldbrugge | Joost Zonneveld Make your city
de stad als casco; NDSM-werf Amsterdam
Tekst op achterflap: "Make your city geeft een fascinerend beeld van twintig jaar pionieren in de stad, aangevuld met de lessen die daaruit te trekken zijn. In 1999 trok een bont gezelschap van skateboarders tot theatermakers en bijstandsmoeders in de toen verlaten scheepsbouwloods op de NDSM-werf in Amsterdam-Noord. Op eigen kracht ontwikkelden zij een toekomststrategie voor het gebouw en zijn omgeving: geen sloop maar herbestemming; een plek voor kleine maakindustrie en kunstenaars; geen tijdelijke...
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 255 pagina's | Trancity×Valiz, [Amsterdam] | 2017
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Russell Shorto Amsterdam
a history of the world's most liberal city
Engels | 357 pagina's | Vintage Books, New York | 2014
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Jill Lepore These truths
a history of the United States
"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history. Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas--'these truths, ' Jefferson called...
Engels | 932 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 2018
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Jantinus Mulder Cruiser HNLMS Tromp
Geschiedenis van het oorlogsschip Hr.Ms. Tromp, gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog vooral operationeel in de wateren rondom Nederlands-Indië en de Pacific.
Non-fictie
Engels | 48 pagina's | Lanasta, Emmen | 2012
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