In Persoonlijkheid en macht onderzoekt Ian Kershaw in hoeverre Europa’s turbulente recente geschiedenis werd bepaald door de daden van politieke leiders.  Meer

In Europa kent bijna niemand hem. Toch hoort Harry Hopkins bij de handvol mensen die bepalend waren voor het lot van ons continent en van ons land.  Meer

Slecht leiderschap is de vloek van de menselijke geschiedenis. Dictators zijn verantwoordelijk voor de meeste oorlogen, genocides en vluchtelingenstromen.  Meer

In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into ';socialist modernity,' otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost.  Meer

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life.  Meer

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world.  Meer

In Europa kent bijna niemand hem. Toch hoort Harry Hopkins bij de handvol mensen die bepalend waren voor het lot van ons continent en van ons land.  Meer

The year 1944 was the turning point of World War Two, and nowhere was this more evident than on the Eastern Front.  Meer

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad with wartime pictures and modern day comparisons to present this title in our 'then and now' theme.  Meer

'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men of the abandoned 6th Army.  Meer