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Red Love
The Story of an East German Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Now, married with two children and the Wall a distant memory, Maxim decides to find the answers to the questions he couldn't ask. Why did his parents, once passionately in love, grow apart? Why did his father become so angry, and his mother quit her career in journalism? And why did his grandfather...
by Charles Messenger, Klaus Naumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Modeled on the acclaimed Great Generals series, which features the strategy and legacy of famous American generals, World Generals broadens the scope to include the world's finest military leaders. Each volume will include a foreword by Wesley K. Clark, and be co-edited by a different foreign general...
The Death of Hitler
The Final Word
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history, when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Truman and...
On Hitler's Mountain
Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she...
The File
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York Times
In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy...
I Am Dynamite!
A Life of Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast**
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch,...
Victor Hugo: Philosopher
Sapere aude – Habe Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen!
Language: German
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Victor-Marie Hugo (* 26. Februar 1802 in Besançon; † 22. Mai 1885 in Paris) war ein französischer Schriftsteller.
Er schrieb zahllose Gedichte sowie Romane und Dramen und betätigte sich als literarischer, aber auch politischer Publizist. Vielen Franzosen gilt er als ihr...
De la quadruple racine du principe de la raison suffisante
Dissertation philosophique ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
De la quadruple racine du principe de raison suffisante (Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde) est le titre de la thèse de doctorat d’Arthur Schopenhauer publiée en 1813. Le philosophe allemand en donnera une seconde édition remaniée en 1847. Schopenhauer considérait...
Ethique, droit et politique
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Le présent volume des Parerga et Paralipomena ne se prête pas par sa nature, comme les trois précédents, à une étude préliminaire biographique ou historique ; nous en avons d’ailleurs déjà dit assez à ce double point de vue, pour mettre en une lumière suffisante la figure originale et...
L’art d’avoir toujours raison ou Dialectique éristique
Suivi de La lecture et les livres ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
L’Art d’avoir toujours raison (en allemand Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten) est une œuvre du philosophe Arthur Schopenhauer qui traite de l’art de la controverse ou « dialectique éristique ».
Rédigée vers 1830-1831 et publiée en 1864, elle est parfois éditée en France sous le titre...
Le fondement de la morale
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Quatrième de couverture :
“Ce qu’il y a de plus important, voire d’essentiel dans l’existence, ce dont tout le reste dépend, sa signification véritable, sa phase critique, sa pointe, se trouve dans la moralité du comportement humain. Mais pour ce qui est de son sens, des modalités,...
Von Braun
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source...
by Gustav Freytag
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Diese Ausgabe von "Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Großen" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Aus dem Buch: "Dennoch sah das Volk in der Begeisterung des Frühjahrs über die Härten weg, und rüstete sich zum Sturme. Schon vor dem Erlaß war in Ostpreußen...
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history
Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered...