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At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and mi……続きを見る

The conquest of Mexico, an extensive empire with a numerous and warlike population, by a mere handful of Spaniards, is one of the romances of history. Indeed, a writer of fiction would scarcely have……続きを見る

In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing……続きを見る

Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to ……続きを見る

A history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of……続きを見る

Behind the Iron Curtain: A Teacher’s Guide to East Germany and Cold War Activities discusses teaching Cold War activities through an East German perspective. The book is comprised of eight chapters ……続きを見る

Le 5 prairial an VI, vers cinq heures du soir, la diligence de Strasbourg, venant de Châlons, arrivait à grand fracas dans le village de Mairy-sur-Marne. On sait que les conducteurs n’ont pas besoin……続きを見る

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: L’Espagne est dédommagée de ses longues épreuves ; au moment même où la France, l’Italie, l’Allemagne s’ébranlaient au tocsin des insurrections, sonnait pour elle l’heure des travaux calmes……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Le Portugal n’a pas la place qu’il mérite dans les préoccupations européennes. Vu de près, ce petit peuple, qu’on croit mort de vieillesse parce qu’il ne fatigue plus l’histoire du bruit de……続きを見る

L’histoire du Moyen-Âge s’ouvre en réalité par la victoire du christianisme et par la translation du siége impérial à Byzance ; elle finit, avec le xve si&e……続きを見る

This book provides a "birds eye" view of social change in France during the "long seventeenth century" from 1589-1715. One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the f……続きを見る

Example in this ebook Our little Dutch cousins have much in common with little American cousins, not so much perhaps with respect to present-day institutions and manners and customs, as with the sur……続きを見る

Example in this ebook To the thousands of little American cousins the little Scotch cousins send their greetings. The Scotch, perhaps, are not so very different from the Americans, after all, and ce……続きを見る

Example in this ebook A large country, called Russia, lies in the eastern part of Europe. It stretches from the icy shores of the Arctic Ocean, on the north, to the warm waters of the Black Sea, on ……続きを見る

[This edition benefits from numerous maps of the battlefields that the actions were fought over] "NUTS!" - Among the many military legends that abound from the fighting of the Second World War, the ……続きを見る

Example in this ebook One of the important historic events of the present century is the revolution which took place in Portugal on the third day of October, 1910, when King Manuel II lost his thron……続きを見る

Example in this ebook In the very heart of Europe lies a small country nestling among the mountains. It is unlike any other in the world. Its people speak four different languages; they believe in d……続きを見る

Example in this ebook The gallant exploits of the Czecho-Slovak army in Siberia won the attention and sympathy of the world to and for their hopes and sacrifices in the cause of freedom. Fighting th……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   There is no doubt whatever but that every little girl and every little boy has heard of the country of Poland, and of its inhabitants the Polacks, or Poles, as you hea……続きを見る

Example in this ebook For more than five thousand years, the ancestors of our little Swedish cousin have dwelt in the Scandinavian peninsula. No wonder she loves the stories of the Vikings, the old ……続きを見る

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained gla……続きを見る

Eine humorvolle Geschichte Österreichs in Geschichten In seinem neuen Buch erzählt Georg Markus österreichische Geschichte auf ganz neue, aber wie immer spannende und unterhaltsame Weise. Er beschre……続きを見る

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Le 5 prairial an VI, vers cinq heures du soir, la diligence de Strasbourg, venant de Châlons, arrivait à grand fracas dans le village de Mairy-sur-Marne. On sait que les conducteurs n’……続きを見る

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Den store franske revolusjonen er Peter A. Kropotkins mesterlige historieverk fra 1909, om de dramatiske hendelsene i Frankrike i åra 1789-94. Kropotkin betrakter revolusjonen fra et gras……続きを見る

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Wo Gegensätze aufeinandertreffen Von Ravenna und Rimini über Apulien und die Straße von Otranto nach Albanien; von Dubrovnik über Split nach Rijeka, das einst Fiume hieß; nach Triest, Abbazia und Ve……続きを見る

Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider hist……続きを見る