The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, Paperback - Robert M. Citino

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. CitinoFor Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")--wars...

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DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Reducere. Hitler's regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments. But typically, the te...

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the reali...

Reducere. Suppose you had a sailor who served honorably and well in two different navies-that were on opposite sides of the same war-and then wrote a book ab...

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

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Publisher: Kagero Oficyna WydawniczaAuthor(s): Eduardo Manuel Gil MartinezIllustration(s): about 210 archival photos, color profilesNumber of pages...

Description Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 - May 1, 1950) was an American political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, eug...

The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

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First-hand accounts from the last days of the Third Reich: these are honest and striking accounts from the front line.Publisher: The History Press ...

Reducere. When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that c...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOn vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small t...

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The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda ...

DescriptionBased on Gilbert's 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully def...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Samuel R GardinerNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 22Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

Describes automatic weapons of the World War II German Wehrmacht.Publisher: The Crowood Press LtdAuthor(s): Robert BruceIllustration(s): Illustrati...

Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book They are voi...

Reducere. By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army go...

Twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s. They dramatize with clinical preci...

Rare and previously unpublished photographs of children in Nazi Germany. Paul Garson offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of children of the...

Reducere. Brecht presents the vivid and changing scene of Hitler's war machine. There is a worker who only mumbles ``Heil Hitlers`` and a S.A. man whose susp...

This text is Brecht's series of 24 inter-connected playlets that describe events which took place in German households before his own exile in 1936...

Reducere. In this extraordinary book, USA Today Bestselling author Marion Kummerow weaves a story of strength, heartbreak, and coming of age in the Third Rei...

Reducere. Robert M. Givens grew up in the Midwest, graduating in 1966 from Millikin University in his hometown of Decatur, Illinois, and from Indiana Univers...

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...

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Reducere. Collection of essays by eight leading historians, looking at how Hitler and the Nazis affected the lives of ordinary Germans in the 1930s and 1940s...

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Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): William L. ShirerNumber of pages: 1264Publication date: 1991Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 56Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. In the same manner as he critiqued Italian Fascism in Fascism Viewed from the Right, in this volume Evola analyses the German National Socialist mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Boria SaxPreface by: Klaus P. FischerThis important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- a...

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

Reducere. Taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 60 halftones from photographs; 98 drawings, maps, and sketches.

This is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams ima...

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Reducere. Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real ti...

An entertaining, accessible guide to 70 classic business texts, covering every aspect of business and a broad span of time.

The true story of the Gestapo - the Nazis' secret police force and the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich.Publisher: Oxf...

Featuring black and white photographs and posters from post-war Germany - some beautiful, some revelatory, some shocking - Aftermath evokes an imme...

Draws on interviews, letters and diaries from generals and frontline soldiers, statesmen and civilians with first-hand experience of the Christmas ...

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