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Frederick the Great
A Life in Deed and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philospher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formindable and feared leaders of his era. But as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great...
by Luise Mühlbach
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
A fascinating look into the life of King Frederick II of Prussia (also prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire Frederick IV of Brandenburg), and the members of his court.
Ludwig the Second
King of Bavaria (English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
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CHAPTER I Descent and Education
At the birth of Ludwig II., enigmatic as he was unfortunate, of whom I propose to give a sketch, his grandfather, the eccentric Ludwig I., was still King of Bavaria. His father, Maximilian Joseph, was the Crown Prince. The latter...
Das ungleiche Königspaar
Der schiefe Fritz und die allerschönste Prinzessin
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Die sechzehnjährige Prinzessin Sophie Charlotte heiratete im Jahr 1684 den brandenburgischen Kronprinzen Friedrich. Die ersten Kinderjahre verbrachte Sophie Charlotte im Hochstift Iburg (bei Osnabrück), bis die Familie in das Schloss Osnabrück zog. Manchmal wird sie schon auf Reisen mitgenommen,...
Die phantastische Welt des Märchenkönigs
Ludwig II. - Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Als Kind will er Schiffskapitän werden. Als König fördert er die moderne Luftfahrt. In der Nähe von Neuschwanstein plant er einen Chinesischen Sommerpalast. Dass er lange überlegt, Bayern zu verkaufen und auszuwandern, geht aus Unterlagen hervor, die Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl im Geheimen...
Unterm roten und schwarzen Adler
Geschichte Brandenburg-Preußens für jedermann
Language: German
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Unter dem roten Adler Brandenburgs und dem preußischen schwarzen wurde Geschichte gemacht: provinzielle, deutsche, europäische. Heute, da Brandenburg wieder ein deutsches Bundesland geworden ist, muss seine tausendjährige Vergangenheit neu und dringend befragt werden. Hans Bentzien hat die Tatsachen...
The End of the German Monarchy
The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A new look at the German empire from the age of Bismarck onwards, its decline during the First World War, the Kaiser’s abdication, and royal connections with the Nazi regime
Comprehensive selection of images, including some rarely seen
Insightful portrait of the Kaiser’s family, including accounts...
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Nineteenth-century German historians portrayed Maximilian I as a fascinating but enigmatic dignitary - the first modern ruler and the last medieval knight, the model humanist, a true Renaissance man. He has since been ridiculed as a spineless misadventurer, a Don Quixote whose head was full of magnificent...
Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Mercedes-Benz History of Mercedes-Benz cars List of Mercedes-Benz cars Russian billionaire buys Hitler's Mercedes
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. It is currently a division of its parent company, Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG),...
by Mark Kozak-Holland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
While you might think your project plan is perfect, would you bet your life on it? In World War II, a group of 220 captured airmen did just that -- they staked the lives of everyone in the camp on the success of a project to secretly build a series of tunnels out of a prison camp their captors thought...
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg: Band 1 bis 5
Die Grafschaft Ruppin, Das Oderland, Havelland, Spreeland & Fünf Schlösser
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Dieses fünfbändige Werk Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg ist das umfangreichste des deutschen Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). Er beschreibt darin Schlösser, Klöster, Orte und Landschaften der Mark Brandenburg, ihre Bewohner und ihre Geschichte, Legenden und Sagen. Zwischen 1862...
Zwingenberger Erblehensstreit
historisches Deutschland
Language: German
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Ein Anliegen ist es mir, auf diese Weise die Vergangenheit eines Landes mit wechselvoller Geschichte am Leben zu erhalten. Ich habe während des Abtippens dieser Schrift viel über Zwingenberg gelernt. Gleichzeitig konnte ich aber auch über unsere Sprache nachdenken, da einige Worte heute gar nicht...
by Linda Milton
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Aprender Alemán divirtiéndose
En alemán, cuando alguien se ha muerto, se dice que está “empujando las margaritas hacia arriba” (Die Radieschen von unten betrachten). Cuando alguien toma el pelo a un amigo, se dice que está “arrastrándolo en la mierda” (Durch den Kakao ziehen). ...