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This book is a complete six-volume history of the First World War, written during the war by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals, read their papers and diaries, and he also talke……続きを見る

FREIHEIT, GLEICHHEIT, GERECHTIGKEIT. EINE ETWAS ANDERE GESCHICHTE DER DEMOKRATIE Dass alle Menschen - wirklich alle! - gleich sein sollen, galt die längste Zeit als absurd. Die Historikerin Hedwig R……続きを見る

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Pass……続きを見る

Kaum einer kennt Russland besser als Michael Thumann, der seit über 25 Jahren aus Osteuropa für die ZEIT berichtet. Er legt nun ein atemberaubend geschriebenes Buch vor, das Russlands Absturz in ein……続きを見る

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together……続きを見る

Examining women's property rights in different societies across the entire medieval and early modern Mediterranean, this volume introduces a unique comparative perspective to the complexities of gen……続きを見る

An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history. Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: ……続きを見る

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the fri……続きを見る

Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study themーleast of all in th……続きを見る

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, th……続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "Karl-Ludwig Sand". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), and recounts the story of a German ……続きを見る

Herman Wijffels doet in zijn auteursdebuut een appel aan de Haagse politiek. Hij houdt een vurig pleidooi voor duurzaamheid en houdbaarheid als de kernprincipes voor een zinvol en constructief lange……続きを見る

In ‘De vreselijke dood van Willem de Zwijger’ laat Lisa Jardine zien hoe de moord op Willem van Oranje door Balthasar Gerards de eerste politieke moord met een vuurwapen was. Op 10 juli 1584 werd Wi……続きを見る

William Duane is most famous as the editor of "The Aurora", the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Based on archival res……続きを見る

Extrait : Voici comment. On a trouvé en certains endroits des armes, des instruments en pierre ou en métal, enfouis dans le sol. Des restes du même genre ont ét&eacu……続きを見る

Extrait :  Voici comment. On a trouvé en certains endroits des armes, des instruments en pierre ou en métal, enfouis dans le sol. Des restes du même genre ont ét&eacu……続きを見る

Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, ‘Betwixt Jest and Earnest’ examines the theory and practic……続きを見る

Eine Geschichte der Niederlande vom 16. Jahrhundert bis ins Jahr 2016. Friso Wielengas "Geschichte der Niederlande"? als Originalausgabe für den Reclam Verlag verfasst, konnte sich sowohl in den Nie……続きを見る

Verfolgt vom eigenen Vater, stets am Rande des Ruins mit Schulden jonglierend, legendär hässlich von Gestalt, aber atemberaubend erfolgreich bei den Frauen, ein Vulkan an Energie und Kraft, beredsam……続きを見る

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. NATO has endured beyond the end of the Cold War by shifting its focus from collective de……続きを見る

The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edw……続きを見る

Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentr……続きを見る

The Culture War. How the West lost its greatness and was weakened from within outlines how the West lost its values, causing its current decline. It is a forceful attack on the extreme liberal,……続きを見る

Zeitroman und Schicksalspanorama: Der „Anschluss“ Österreichs durch die Nazis im März 1938 und ihr Einmarsch in Wien waren ein traumatischer Wendepunkt in der europäischen Geschichte. Anschaulich un……続きを見る

This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies ー Area Handbook Program. The books in the series de……続きを見る

WHEN we study the foundation of the United Provinces," says a great French writer, "we learn how a State, from an origin almost unnoticed, rapidly rose into greatness, was formed without design, and……続きを見る

The Super Summary of World History Revised is a new and very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes as of 2010. Mr. Daniel has completely reviewed and rewri……続きを見る

Philips Willem, de zoon van Willem van Oranje, werd ontvoerd vanuit Leuven, waar hij studeerde, en verbleef 30 jaar als gijzelaar in Madrid. P.J. Schipperus vertelt zijn opmerkelijke levensverhaal. ……続きを見る

"WHEN we study the foundation of the United Provinces, says a great French writer, "we learn how a State, from an origin almost unnoticed, rapidly rose into greatness, was formed without design, and……続きを見る