Victoria Eugenia Gordo del Rey Boeken

Zelden is een geschiedenisboek met zoveel ontzag en enthousiasme ontvangen als Tony Judts Na de oorlog . Maar dit is dan ook hét boek over de naoorlogse Europese geschiedenis, over 34 landen in een periode van 60 jaar. Na de oorlog laat zien hoe groot de economische gevolgen van de oorlog waren, en hoe Europa zich herstelde. De burgers profiteerden daar pas van sinds de jaren vijftig, en vooral in de jaren zestig, waarna ook de politieke vernieuwingen steeds radicaler werden. Maar dit is niet alleen een geschiedenis van schokkende gebeurtenissen en breuken, de kracht van dit verhaal schuilt vooral in de vertelwijze, die duidelijk maakt dat alle landen, en zelfs alle regio's op bepaalde ogenblikken van een cruciale invloed waren op Europa. Geschiedenis op zijn best: elke samenvatting doet onrecht aan het veelkleurige beeld dat Judt de lezer voorschotelt.

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world's leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. He explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles's achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler's life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles's reign and views the world through the emperor's own eyes.

It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite's goddaughter, Renata Knox. Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata's mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the opportunity, against her father's wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes of learning the story of her mother's life--and death. But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both women, and nothing ends up as planned. Welcome to The Love Season --a riveting story that takes place in one day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine island of Nantucket, as well as Manhattan, Paris and Morocco. Elin Hilderbrand's most ambitious novel to date chronicles the famous couplings of real lives: love and friendship, food and wine, deception and betrayal--and forgiveness and healing.