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  • "Er möchte nur wißen, daß die Armée mir gehört." Friedrich II. und seine Offiziereby Rolf Straubel

    BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012; US$ 75.48

    HauptbeschreibungGemeinhin 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'by Mark A. Wolfgram

    Bucknell University Press 2010; US$ 36.99

    How 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 - 1945by Emil Alphons Rheinhardt; Jean-Louis Georget; Uta Schwarz; Dominique Lassaigne

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00

    The 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..."by Karin Hunn

    Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 39.88

    Hauptbeschreibung 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"by Emil Georg Sold; Ivan Fehrenbach; Paul Friedhoff

    Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 23.95

    In 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 Mittelalterby Jana Krüger

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00

    Our 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...

  • 1776-1809by Barthold Georg Niebuhr

    De Gruyter 1926; US$ 252.00

    Niebuhr, Barthold Georg; Gerhard, Dietrich; Norvin, William: Briefe / 1776?1809 more...

  • 1809-1816by

    De Gruyter 1929; US$ 266.00

    Niebuhr, Barthold Georg; Gerhard, Dietrich; Norvin, William: Briefe / 1776?1809 more...

  • 1938by Giles MacDonogh

    Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.99

    The acclaimed author of After the Reich narrates the events of 1938, the year that the Third Reich came of age, and Hitler graduated from ruthless dictator to international menace. more...

  • 1938: Hitler's Gambleby Giles MacDonogh

    Constable & Robinson 2009; US$ 13.11

    In 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...