Germany category: 4580 books
by General Max Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
“Racy two-volume military memoirs of the brilliant mind that conceived the operational plan for Tannenberg, Germany’s triumph on the eastern front in 1914. Hoffmann was the strong man in the east for the rest of the war.
Max Hoffmann was Chief of Staff to Von Prittwitz, the aristocratic General...
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India
Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies*,* the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches,...
Industry and Politics in the Third Reich (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
When originally published in 1985 this was the first detailed study of business in Nazi Germany. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from government and private archives, the book throws light on the important role played by Germany heavy industry in preserving traditions valuable for the post-Nazi...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Essen : (Germany) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Essen : (Germany) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Essen : (Germany) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Writing the Revolution
The Construction of "1968" in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In Germany, the concept of "1968" is enduring and synonymous with the German Student Movement, and is viewed, variously, as a fundamental liberalization, a myth, a second foundation, or an irritation. The movement's aims - radical re-imagination of the political and economic order and social...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bremen : (Germany) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bremen : (Germany) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bremen : (Germany) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
The Divided Path
The German Influence on Social Reform in France After 1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating...
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War
Goals, Expectations, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. That alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are...
by Leonard Peikoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
“A truly revolutionary idea… Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned.”—Ayn Rand
Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial “truth,” the public good, doing one’s duty—these are among the seductive catchphrases that circulated in pre-Nazi Germany....
by Ken Kurihara
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Celestial phenomena were often harnessed for use by clerics in early modern Germany. Kurihara examines how and why interest in these events grew in this period, how the clergy exploited these beliefs and the role of sectarianism in Germany at this time.
East German Foreign Intelligence
Myth, Reality and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence.
The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German foreign...
by Jefferson Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
No country can rival the sheer diversity of intelligence organizations that Germany has experienced over the past 300 years. Given its pivotal geographical and political position in Europe, Germany was a magnet for foreign intelligence operatives, especially during the Cold War. As a result of this,...
Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness
The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
How did the affliction we now know as insanity move from a religious phenomenon to a medical one? How did social class, gender, and ethnicity affect the experience of mental trauma and the way psychiatrists diagnosed and treated patients? In answering these questions, this important volume mines the...
Reckonings
Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A single word--"Auschwitz"--is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet focusing on a single concentration camp, however horrific the scale of crimes committed there, leaves an incomplete story, truncates a complex history...