Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, Hardcover - Christopher Clark

DescriptionFrom the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of t...

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

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

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked...

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

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. 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...

DescriptionPublished to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Victory in Europe grippingly recounts the storming and taking of Hitler's "Fortre...

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...

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

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

Reducere. This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographe...

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

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...

From camp guards to combatants and typists to telephone operators, Tim Heath shines a light on the experience and activities of women embroiled in ...

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 ...

Reducere. Commissioned by the Third Reich, Sword of the Spirit, is a collection of aphorisms by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The sole purpose ...

They started as little more than a gang of extremists and thugs, yet in a few years the Nazis had turned Germany into a one-party state and led one...

'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed int...

Before Hitler seized power in 1933, Germany had been famous for its sophistication and complexity. So how was it possible for a group of ideologica...

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

Reducere. If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and country...

DescriptionThis trenchant reconsideration of artist Emil Nolde's life and work deconstructs the myths that have surrounded Nolde's legacy until tod...

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

With a wealth of rare and previously unseen images, Paul Garson showcases a fascinating collection of photographs captured by Nazi soldiers.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographe...

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...

DescriptionDrawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and ...

Reducere. During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these ...

Reducere. There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and chang...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

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...

Reducere. How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the ...

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in ...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This series is Edexcel's own course for the GCE 2008 specification, and is designed to provide students with the best prepartion possible for their...

Description_'The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story... with genuine verve and style... His] South Tyrolean origins, and his...

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fatef...

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...

Reducere. Did you know that Germany is a relatively new country? Its many different states only united in 1871, and it reunited after the fall of the Berlin ...

Reducere. Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the d...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FeltonIt is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered... As the Red Army closes in on ...

At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant ...

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...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller ``That rare sort of book whose remarkable insight focuses on a subject that's been overlooked, even disregarded by histor...

This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and annotation desi...

Reducere. The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler’...