Germany category: 4580 books
Choices in Vichy France
The French Under Nazi Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1986
Post-World War II scholarship and films like The Sorrow and the Pity have frequently replaced the old Gaullist notion of widespread resistance, and cultivated the impression that the French may well have been a "nation of collaborators," embracing the dream of a new authoritarian order in France as...
German POWs, Der Ruf, and the Genesis of Group 47
The Political Journey of Alfred Andersch and Hans Werner Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This work explores the experiences of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, authors who served in the German army during World War II, were captured by U.S. forces, and enlisted into a secret program to promote American democracy to their fellow POWs while imprisoned in the United States. Upon...
by Michael Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject History Europe - Germany - 1848, Empire, Imperialism, grade: 95.0, Westminster College, course: Russian History, language: English, abstract: The Crimean War and the Great War were two conflicts that resulted in drastic changes for the Russian people and altered...
by Geneviève Duboscq
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
“An unforgettable account of D-Day” from the perspective of a young woman who saved the lives of Allied soldiers (New Statesman).
Growing up in the remote, marshy lowlands of Normandy, young Geneviève Duboscq had little concept of war—even after Nazi Germany occupied France. But that...
The German Colonial Experience
Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884-1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I. Knoll and Hiery show how Africans, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders reacted to German rule, how the Germans ran...
by George K. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This study measures wartime claims against actual results of the British bombing campaign against Germany in the Great War. Components of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and the Royal Air Force (RAF) conducted bombing raids between July 1916 and the Armistice. Specifically,...
Instrument of War
The German Army 1914–18
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by – yet also defeated by – warfare in the modern age, which struggled to capitalize...
by Konrad Heiden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Konrad Heiden was an influential journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Eras. He became an early critic of National Socialism after attending a party meeting in 1920. First published in English in 1934, A History of National Socialism provides a detailed account of the growth of...
by Major James R. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This thesis considers the extent to which Soviet ascendancy over Germany by late 1943 can be attributed to a resurgence of operational art.
Discussion begins with an overview of operational art and the development of the theory up to 1937. It explains the significant differences between Soviet and...
War of Annihilation
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction would result not just from military operations...
Panaceia's Daughters
Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Panaceia’s Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen’s healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many...
Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent...
by Kathryn Hulme
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this memoir, Kathryn Hulme, a United Nations relief officer in Bavaria from 1945 until 1951, records the daily life, hopes and struggles of over 100,000 Displaced Persons housed by UNRRA at Wildflecken, a former training camp for Nazi SS troops, and in other DP camps.
“[A]n unforgettable...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Berlin began as a modest shopping centre in the XIII century, rising to a unique place. After reunification in 1990, it unfolds in a dynamic and creative city that under harsh exterior is bound surprising nonchalance. Berlin is the heart of modern Germany with a stoic beat that echoes through grand...