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"Er möchte nur wißen, daß die Armée mir gehört." Friedrich II. und seine Offiziere
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012; US$ 75.48HauptbeschreibungGemeinhin wurde bisher immer angenommen, daß der Aufstieg in der altpreußischen Armee vornehmlich nach dem Dienstalter erfolgte, weshalb sich eine nähere Beschäftigung mit den Karriereverläufen der Offiziere erübrigte. Damit kontrastieren solche Resolutionen des großen Königs wie die, Ich werde doch wohl einen Offizier in meiner Armee... more...
'Getting History Right'
Bucknell University Press 2010; US$ 36.99How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? 'Getting History Right' examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular... more...
"Meine Gefängnisse": Tagebücher 1943 - 1945
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00The Vienna-born writer Emil Alphons Rheinhardt (1889?1945)was was arrested in France in 1943 and then deported to Dachau concentration camp, where he died shortly before the liberation. Rheinhardt?s notes from the Gestapo prisons bear witness to a long-forgotten humanist who believed in the peacemaking power of culture. more...
"Nächstes Jahr kehren wir zurück..."
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 39.88Hauptbeschreibung Als die Bundesanstalt für Arbeit im Herbst 1961 eine Anwerbestelle in der Türkei einrichtete, geschah dies in der Absicht, den Mangel an Arbeitskräften durch "Gastarbeiter" auszugleichen. Bis zum Anwerbestopp im September 1973 reisten etwa 865000 überwiegend männliche türkische Arbeitskräfte in die Bundesrepublik. Obwohl ihre hohen... more...
"That Time Cannot Be Forgotten"
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 23.95In a gripping exchange of letters written in the closing years of the 20th century, two men struggle to come to terms with the signal event of their time, the Holocaust. Born in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany in the early part of the 20th century, both bore witness to the turbulent years... more...
"Wikinger? im Mittelalter
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Our present-day view of the Vikings and their activities is based mainly on Swedish poetry of the romantic period, as well as the results of archaeological research in the 20th century. But what pictures were conjured up by Vikings and their travels in the Middle Ages? An answer to this question can be provided by medieval Scandinavian literature,... more...
1938: Hitler's Gamble
Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 13.11In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year The Third Reich came of age and the Führer showed his hand --... more...









