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Includes over 50 maps and plans Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe is the most highly regarded single-volume history of the Second World War in Europe. First published in 1952, the book has th……続きを見る

The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor ……続きを見る

Aristocrate catholique, homme politique de la république de Weimar, Von Papen a permis l’alliance politique entre la droite conservatrice et les nazis. Ce livre est un essai historique et biographiq……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. What made a failed Austrian artist into the most reviled and destructive personality of the twentieth century? Where did the seeds of his rabid……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

"Der liebe Gott hat mich als Arbeitstier geboren", lautet einer der legendären Aussprüche Helmut Schmidts, der in der Tat ein disziplinierter, bis an die Belastungsgrenze gehender Arbeiter war. Als ……続きを見る

Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volume……続きを見る

Wilhelm Richard Wagner, né le 22 mai 1813 à Leipzig et mort le 13 février 1883 à Venise, est un compositeur, directeur de théâtre, écrivain, chef d'orchestre et polémiste allemand de la période roma……続きを見る

This study addresses Henry L. Stimson, as Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, and his influence on American foreign policy toward Japan following the Japanese military action in China……続きを見る

The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has……続きを見る

Warum wollte Adenauer «Keine Experimente» und Brandt «Mehr Demokratie wagen»? Warum sagte Kennedy, dass er ein Berliner sei? Was blieb von der DDR übrig? Was hat «Emma» mit der Frauenquote zu tun? W……続きを見る

Includes 20 Illustrations In 1942 the Allied powers faced the most serious challenge to their control of the seas encountered in the Second World War: the menace of the U-boat. Fast, well- armed, an……続きを見る

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of se……続きを見る

In "The Secrets of Potsdam" by William Le Queux, the reader is taken on a thrilling journey through a complex web of political intrigue and espionage. Set against the backdrop of early 20th century ……続きを見る

Williwaw first published in 1946, is the notable first novel of a young Gore Vidal, who during World War II was a first mate of a supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story revolves ar……続きを見る

Wer als Autor im Dritten Reich publizieren wollte, musste sich offiziell registrieren lassen als Mitglied der Reichsschrifttumskammer. Aber was bedeutete das? Wieviel Anpassung wurde verlangt? Wie w……続きを見る

The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from the……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Having suffered during World War One – not only the indignities of political betrayal and battlefield defeat but also starvation, fuel shortage……続きを見る

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour ……続きを見る

As the chief planner for General Marshall, and co-author of the Victory Plan, General Wedemeyer had a truly significant hand in shaping and directing the Allied War effort against the Fascist powers……続きを見る

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsib……続きを見る

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of comp……続きを見る

An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian T……続きを見る

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." ーFinancial Times An extraordinary mythology ha……続きを見る

America’s Ambassador to Tokyo for the ten years before Pearl Harbor tells the full story of how and why America went to war with Japan. He draws that story from three first-hand sources: his own day……続きを見る

A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before. Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany through more than 1,000 extracts from letters, diaries, ……続きを見る

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II……続きを見る

• Creative ideas for making glass beads • 8 skilled beadmakers are given the challenge to create beads based on an inspiration--a color, a season, a painting, an emotion--to see what they will creat……続きを見る

In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nod……続きを見る

Am 16. August 1945, gerade einmal drei Monate und acht Tage nach dem endgültigen Zusammenbruch Nazideutschlands, nahm der Aufbau Verlag seine Arbeit auf. Schnell wurde er zum größten belletristische……続きを見る