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The first in a two-volume set, this guide describes cycling the first half of the 1269km Danube river from its source in the Black Forest to Budapest. The main route in this volume has been broken into 29 stages, averaging 44km per stage. A fit cyclist, cycling an average of 90km per day should be...

Berlin is a city that visionary architects, city planners, social revolutionaries, and ruling kaisers have all tried to reshape. As a result, it is sheathed in layers of modern history, each providing a chapter in the city's story of constant change. Its rich atmosphere of energy made it the intellectual...

Lake Constance is one of Germany's most popular cycling areas. This guide describes not only the lakeside path, but also gives a series of excursions into Thurgau in Switzerland, down to the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen and up to historic Ravensburg.The book includes information on back...

Find your corner of Berlin with this essential travel guide to this great city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your suitcase - marvel at ancient treasures on Museumsinsel, explore Berlin's complex history at Checkpoint Charlie...

The author, a travel journalist, was born and lives in Germany. This guide focuses on Berlin, Germanys capital, its largest city, and perhaps its most interesting destination. It has more than 170 museums, three opera houses, an enormous cultural variety, and gripping modern history. An interesting daytrip...

Do you like discovering other cities? So, welcome to Munich, Bavaria’s capital, a wonderful city full of History, culture and amazing other things to discover! Do you want to discover History, meet warm people and taste a great gastronomy? Do you like Nature and Architecture? ...

The Soaring Kiwi and the Sauerkraut is the offbeat travel tale of a hang gliding New Zealander who makes the mistake of marrying a grumpy German and moving to Munich, the city of big beer and Lederhosen you couldn't whip a high ranking motorsport official into wearing. A big life style change for...

Before you head overseas on your own Foreign Service assignment, learn from the real-life experiences of Cliff and Lynn Feightner. At a time when most people are moving their stock investments into bonds, these intrepid adventurers sell everything that they have accumulated in their 40+ years of marriage...

A comprehensive travel guide to Potsdam. Make the most out of your trip to this great city near Berlin in Germany. Covers the best places to see, eat, shop, sleep, party, and much, much more. All with honest reviews and independent advice.

The cruiser SMS Emden was part of the German East Asia Squadron based at the Tsingtao in China during the First World War. Designed to be a commerce raider, attacking Allied merchant shipping rather than fleet battle action, she achieved much more than that under the command of her swashbuckling commander...

As warfare ground to a halt in the static, bloody trenches of the Western Front in 1914, the Allied command sought to lever Germany’s Turkish allies out of the war. Although the British had but a small standing peacetime army, she possessed the largest fleet in the world, and planned to use the...

The battle for Berlin brought an end to the bloodiest conflict in European history. During the last days of the battle, Andrew Tully was one of three Americans allowed to enter Berlin as a guest of a Russian artillery battalion commander.  His extraordinary experience spawned a seventeen year...

The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a renewed interest in the postwar years and the complicated relationship between East and West German cinema in particular. A survey of the 1950s, as offered here for the first time, is therefore long...

Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle's Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German...