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The Berlin Airlift- Vol. 3
The Men that made the Airlift work
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
In this volume, Dr. Provan provides the most complete listing known, of the names of individual airmen who were assigned the massive task of providing for Berlin’s survival during the Blockade between 1948 and 1949. Intended as an appendix to Volume 1-“the Berlin Airlift-the First Battle of the...
Ford, General Motors, and the Nazis
Marxist Myths About Production, Patriotism, and Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The threat of concentration camps, untimely strikes, and propaganda influenced Ford and GM's war efforts in the U.S. and Europe. Dealing with both the brutal Nazi regime and Communist attempts to influence American opinion, leaders at Ford and GM attempt to balance loyalty to their corporations and homeland.
by Gottfried Feder
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 1927 Hitler asked Gottfried Feder to formulate the official Programme of the German National Socialist Party. This English translation of the fifth German edition was first published in 1934.
Der Weltreisende Colin Roß vor deutschem und oesterreichischem Publikum
Massenkulturelle Vermarktung von Kriegserfahrung und Abenteuer (19121938)
Language: German
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Das Buch analysiert die Kriegs- und Reiseberichte des Reisejournalisten und -filmemachers Colin Roß (1885–1945). Roß galt in der Weimarer Republik als einer der populärsten Vertreter der geopolitisch interessierten Reiseberichterstattung. Als höchst relevant erweist sich dabei der Umgang von...
Hitlers «voelkische Vorkaempfer»
Die Entwicklung nationalsozialistischer Kultur- und Rassenpolitik in der Baum-Frick-Regierung 19301931
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Am 23. Januar 1930, drei Jahre vor der sogenannten Machtergreifung, trat in Thüringen die erste Landesregierung mit nationalsozialistischer Beteiligung zusammen. Die Autorin wirft erstmals einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Baum-Frick-Regierung und offenbart ihre eigentlichen Entscheidungsträger:...
Die kranke Republik
Koerper- und Krankheitsmetaphern in politischen Diskursen der Weimarer Republik
Language: German
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Wie eine Demokratie krank gemacht wird, indem sie als siech, Geschwür oder Virus bezeichnet wird, kann man am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik ablesen.
Dieses Buch nähert sich der Verbindung von Krankheit und Krise aus der Perspektive demokratischer Spitzenpolitiker Weimars, die zermürbt von...
by Holger Horst Brüning
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Geschichte der Konfliktkommissionen in der DDR von ihrer Entstehung bis zu ihrer Abschaffung. Sie vergleicht die Konfliktkommissionsordnungen und untersucht das Verhältnis der Konfliktkommissionen zu Gewerkschaften und betrieblichen Leitern. Die Untersuchung beruht auf...
Der Erste Weltkrieg
Ostmitteleuropaeische Einblicke und Perspektiven
Language: German
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Der Band nimmt lokale Perspektiven des Ersten Weltkriegs, insbesondere der ostmitteleuropäischen Regionen, in den Blick. Die Beiträge berücksichtigen dabei besonders die multiethnische Gemengelage und die durch den Ersten Weltkrieg ausgelösten Konflikte in den regionalen Lebenswelten. Die Spannungen...
The Great Escape
A Canadian Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape," an intricate breakout more than a year in...
by Melissa McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Brussels, Belgium. Brussels is the capital city of Belgium and of the Brussels Capital Region. It is entirely surrounded by Dutch-speaking Flanders and its constituent Flemish Brabant province. As headquarters of many European institutions, Brussels...
by Ernie Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told,” wrote Harry Truman. “He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.”
THIS is the final book of Ernie Pyle’s war reporting. After Africa, Italy, and D-Day on the...
by Joseph Roth
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings....
Messages from a Lost World
Europe on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last...
by Benedetto Croce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
One of Croce’s most famous books, originally published in 1934, this volume covers the history of Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the First World War. Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1931 the book discusses, among other things, religious freedoms, the concept of liberty, liberalism and nationalism and the rise of the German state.