Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Germany

Der Band enthalt in kritischer Edition samtliche ca. 240 Briefe von und an Schleiermacher von Januar 1801 bis Mai 1802, deren uberwiegender Teil hier erstmals publiziert wird. Die Briefe sind chronologisch geordnet und durch Apparate und Register erschlossen.

Der Briefwechsel Alexander v. Humboldts mit dem preussischen Kronprinzen und spateren Konig Friedrich Wilhelm IV. beleuchtet eine spannende Epoche der preussischen Geschichte. Im kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Zentrum Paris vermittelte er dem architekturinteressierten Monarchen Kontakte zu Kunstlern. Nach 1827 wurde die freundschaftliche Beziehung wichtig fur Humboldts Anliegen, Berlin zu einem bedeutenden Wissenschaftszentrum zu machen.

1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe.

This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.

Once Nazi Germany had conquered Norway in 1940, just a handful of Gruppen flying the Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters was able to shatter all opposition and dominate the air in the Arctic Circle. Yet as the dual threat of the Royal Air Force and the Red Air Force grew, the Luftwaffe was forced to increase its fighter presence to full Geschwader strength with the formation of JG 5 Eismeer (Ice-Sea) in early 1942.

The struggle for the frozen skies of the arctic raged on until the end of the war as the embattled JG 5 produced some of the Eastern Front's leading aces: pilots of the caliber...

The reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II was a transitional period in German history when the traditions of the nineteenth century were coming into conflict with the emerging cultural, social, and political patterns of the twentieth century. The resulting tensions were clearly reflected in the period's leading satirical journals, Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus.

Both journals appealed to a diverse middle-class readership and attracted widespread attention through their flamboyant and sometimes scurrilous attacks on authority. Their satire, expressed through cartoons, anecdotes,...