Germany category: 4580 books
The Berlin Airlift
The Relief Operation that Defined the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode.
Berlin, 1948 – a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies were...
The Great Disorder
Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1997
This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation as a strategy of social pacification and economic reconstruction...
by John Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: Summer 2018
The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not all areas of the course....
by Christopher Culpin, Steve Mastin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.
Enquiring History: It makes you think!
The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students have been poorly served by exam-based...
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context....
A Letter from Frank
The Second World War Through the Eyes of a Canadian Soldier and a German Paratrooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten letter. It was written from Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War to a Canadian in a peaceful Southern Ontario town. Both had been soldiers and had met on a German battlefield. The letter lay unseen for years and was found by the Canadian’s...
Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'
German and Intercultural Stagings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted...
by Angela Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Hamburg is the European Union’s seventh largest city. Located on the River Elbe, one hundred kilometers from the North Sea, Hamburg is known as the “Gateway to the World.” It is the second largest port city in Europe and has been known for its port since medieval times. Regarded as one...
Absolute Destruction
Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as...
by Major Han Bouwmeester
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
SS Obersturmbannführer Jochen Peiper was one of Germany ‘s most colorful military leaders of World War II with an audacious reputation. The name Peiper will always be linked to the Malmédy Massacre, the death of Belgian civilians and more than seventy American soldiers, but there is still a myth...
by Murray Baird
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1C, University of Stirling, course: Modern European History, 1919 - 1991, language: English, abstract: War broke out in Europe in September 1939 because of the conjunction of several factors....
by Arthur F. J. Remy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
German literature during the nineteenth century is familiar to every student of that literature. Although the general nature of this movement is pretty clearly understood, no systematic investigation of it, so far as I know, has ever been undertaken. In the following pages an attempt is made to trace...
by David Maidment
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans...
What Remains
Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past...