K.W. - European General 1

What if the world's most powerful civilisations were not the ones you learned about in school? Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, entire empires once rivalled Rome, Persia, and China-yet today t……続きを見る

Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ran……続きを見る

Reveals how Frederick Winterbotham’s Special Liaison Units securely delivered Ultra intelligence, shaping pivotal Allied victories in WWII. In April 1940, when British cryptographers at Bletchley Pa……続きを見る

What if sleep was no longer a necessity? What if your body, mind, and spirit could survive for 40 years without ever needing a moment of rest? Meet Paul Kern, a Hungarian soldier who, after survivin……続きを見る

Reveals how Frederick Winterbotham's covert Nazi connections provided early warnings Britain failed to heed. The Nazi Connection details Frederick William Winterbotham's work as Chief of the Air Int……続きを見る

Der 14. Oktober 1066 war ein Schicksalstag der englischen Geschichte. Damals besiegten in der Schlacht von Hastings die Truppen Herzog Wilhelms das Aufgebot der Angelsachsen, die unter ihrem König H……続きを見る

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and e……続きを見る

"Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."ーM. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa "This is a fascinating and……続きを見る

Polnische und österreichische Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren aus historischer und literatur- bzw. kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht die Auswirkungen des Ersten Weltkriegs auf die Gesellschaften ihr……続きを見る

Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. H……続きを見る

The figure of Prince William of Orange (1572-84) dominates the political landscape of the sixteenth century Netherlands, and in many ways personifies the Dutch revolt against Spanish hegemony. Yet d……続きを見る

Soviet Russia Fights Neurosis (1934) examines the states of mental well-being in the Soviet Union at the start of the 1930s. The author, a physician, visited Soviet Russia and saw the difference in ……続きを見る

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium pr……続きを見る

Das Jahr 1848 ist für die Geschichte Österreichs von zentraler Bedeutung. Trotz ihrer brutalen Niederschlagung wurden viele Ideen der "1848er" doch in den folgenden Jahrzehnten umgesetzt: Der Erlass……続きを見る

Sirviéndose, como línea argumental, de la historia de los caballos de raza lipizana, Frank Westerman recorre la historia contemporánea de la Europa del siglo XX en este brillante y original ensayo, ……続きを見る

Technological Innovation, Modernity, and Electric Goods in Late State Socialist Poland deconstructs the public performance of technological innovation and imagined modernity in relation to the home ……続きを見る

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection p……続きを見る

‘Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time’ BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today’s toxic debates' DAILY T……続きを見る

This thesis examines the application of battle command during the 100/442d Regimental Combat Team's rescue of the First Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, the "Lost Battalio……続きを見る

I "Sockerpullor och Pepparkorn: Små bilder ur skånska folklifvet förr och nu" erbjuder Henrik Wranér en djupgående upptäcktsfärd i Skånes rika folkrika traditioner. Boken representerar en unik kombi……続きを見る

The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and Americ……続きを見る

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist 'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised to the……続きを見る

The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian M……続きを見る

The exploits of the Submarine Rescue League, which had the job of picking up American flyers shot down while attacking objectives in the Pacific. 'In writing this book, the authors had a triple purp……続きを見る

Hell at 50 Fathoms, written by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, tells the story of submarine accidents of the United States Navy. It describes the bone-chilling e……続きを見る

WELCOME ABOARD THE U.S.S. HARDER… She was credited with sinking twenty Japanese ships, eight of them destroyers. Her captain, Sam Dealey, devoted son and loving husband and father, was a product of ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1951, in Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific Vice-Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, who commanded the U.S. submarines in the Pacific during the greater part of World Wa……続きを見る

Originally published in 1955, Hellcats of the Sea chronicles the activities of the U.S. Navy's Pacific submarine fleet in World War II. At the heart of the book lies Operation Barney, the secret mis……続きを見る

The story of Spearhead in the West recounts the early history of the 3rd Armored Division, its training in various locations, both in the United States and in England, and its combat record from Nor……続きを見る

Tijdens de aanval op de stranden van Normandië nam Dick Winters het commando van Easy Company over, het 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Hij leidde hen langs de grote veldslagen van de oorlog en d……続きを見る