Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Germany

For those interested in the actual appearance of the Prussian soldiers who fought at Ligny, Wavre and Waterloo in 1815, this colorful study combines the latest findings and expert analysis to cast new light on the fateful Waterloo campaign.

The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine, led by Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher in 1815, played a - possibly the - vital part in the Allied victory at Waterloo, forcing Napoleon to divide his forces when Blucher's leading elements arrived to offer Wellington crucial support at a time when his Anglo-Netherlands army was doing no...

Les secrets de l'ere nazie sont de fait assez mysterieux. Il est donc inutile d'alourdir de fantaisies, voire de pures inventions, les faits historiques authentiques concernant le domaine de l'occultisme nazi, tout particulierement quand on aborde leurs expeditions etranges et leurs recherches pseudo-scientifiques.

L'amateur d'histoires sensationnelles et bizarres pourra toujours se satisfaire a volonte du Projet Hexen sur les sorcieres, dont Himmler avait ordonne la mise en uvre, ou de la theorie de la Terre creuse.

Sous de nombreux aspects, l'ere nazie fut comme une breche...

In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the "subversive" dimensions of German-Jewish thought or the "inner antisemitism" of the German philosophical tradition, Rose shows convincingly the tremendous resources German philosophy offered contemporary Jews for thinking about the place of Jews in the wider...

With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of...

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther's life, Michael A. Mullet explains and analyses Luther's background, the development of his Reformation theology in the 95 Theses, the Diet of Worms and the creation of Lutheranism. This fully revised and updated new edition includes a chapter on the legacy and memory of Luther through the centuries since his death, looking to his influence on modern Germany and...

In 1943, men and women of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron boarded a routine flight from Sicily to the Italian mainland to care for wounded soldiers. En route, their plane drifted hundreds of miles off course and crash-landed in remote mountainous Albania.

The unarmed Americans were trapped hundreds of...

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) was, in Berlin, an eminent preacher, professor, and member of the academy. He displayed an influential theological and philosophical position between enlightenment, German idealism, and romanticism.

The historical-critical edition of Schleiermacher's complete works, his unpublished writings and correspondence, published since 1980, has been divided into the following five sections:
I.Writings and Drafts
II.Lectures
III.Sermons
IV.Translations
V.Correspondence and Biographical Documents

The first editorial...

Die Studie widmet sich Konstruktionen des Judischen in der Literatur des Barock und untersucht, wo und wie sich Redeweisen vom Judischen konstituieren. Auch wenn das Gros der Texte mit antijudischen Stereotypen operiert, kommt es doch auch zu einer neuen Form der Hinwendung, wenn alte Erzahlweisen dekonstruiert und Freiraume ausgelotet werden, so dass sich vereinzelt Erprobungen neutraler und sogar positiver Entwurfe judischer Figuren finden.

Der Niedergang des Burgertums seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert ist oft beschrieben worden. Bei Andreas Schulz wird Burgerlichkeit dagegen (auch) als krisenfestes Leitbild sichtbar, das bis heute als Identifikationsmoglichkeit Bestand hat und jenen, die sich dem Burgertum zugehorig fuhlen, Ruckhalt bietet. Der Nachtrag zur zweiten Auflage behandelt die Forschung seit dem ersten Erscheinen, die Bibliographie ist um zentrale neue Titel erganzt.

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...