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The Long Ride of Major Von Schill
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 52.99This unique book traces the past 200 years of German history, using an iconic German folk hero as a bellwether of changing politics and culture. In 1809, at the height of Napoleon's power in Europe, the Prussian Major Ferdinand von Schill led a revolt against the French empire. Within a month his rebellion was crushed, and Schill became a martyr for... more...
Escape From Germany
Transworld 2011; US$ 12.00July, 1918. The most heavily guarded POW camp in the world. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed-wire fences, patrolled by ferocious dogs and armed guards with orders to shoot to kill, Holzminden was a brutal punishment camp. To escape would take boundless ingenuity and nerves of steel. Many tried. Prisoners used sardine-tin openers... more...
Access to History
Hodder Education 2009; US$ 14.99Specifically designed for students studying Edexcel A Level History Unit 3 'From Kaiser to Fuhrer: Germany 1900-1945, with all the in-depth content and analysis they need. more...
The Weimar Moment
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 99.99The lessons that we learn from the brilliance of the scholarship from Weimar Germany and its continued relevance to the contemporary scene define the spirit of the essays in this volume. Academic analysis is the beginning of institutional response to avoid reoccurrence of past political nihilism and catastrophe. This volume presents a predicate... more...
Acolytes of Nature
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of “science” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “science,” naturwissenschaft , was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however,... more...
Synthetic Socialism
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 55.95Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections... more...
Fallschirmjäger
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95Few of the combatants of World War II have captured the imagination as compulsively as the Fallschirmjäger. Boldness and courage were vital characteristics in the rigorous selection process, and their training was highly demanding. Hitler's airborne troops were involved in some of the most daring actions of the whole war; from the 1940 assault on Eben... more...
The German Army 1939-45 (5)
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95This book covers the high command, the developments in unit organisation, the campaigns and the uniforms and equipment of the German Army in the last two years of the war in North-West Europe and Italy. Despite the huge pressure of fighting on three fronts, ever-worsening shortages of manpower and equipment, and Allied command of the skies, Germany's... more...
The German Army 1939-45 (3)
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union, commenced on 22 June 1941. It became the biggest conflict in military history, with some three million German troops and about 900,000 allies facing almost 4.7 million Soviet troops. The effects would colour postwar European history for the next 50 years. This title examines the history of the conflict,... more...
Winning and Losing on the Western Front
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front. more...









