Alexander II - Prijzen

Colossus Reborn

In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941....

Deliverance at Diepholz

With candor and humor, American infantryman Jack Dower describes his narly fifteen months spent as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich after his company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, I...

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes...

Echoes From The Holocaust

During the most difficult times of World War II, Mira Kimmelman writes, I wondered whether the world really knew what was happening to us. I lived in total isolation, not knowing what was taking pla...

Sacrifice on the Steppe

When Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by allied armies-the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quic...

The Evolution of the British Welfare State

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. Derek Fraser's authoritative account is the esse...

Rhf- RHF - Revista de Historia del Fascismo

Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom o...

Transformational and Charismatic Leadership

This is the 10th anniversary edition of Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead. In the current compendium, we seek to update the theoretical and empirical work and professional...

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II

This is Volume One of A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia , covering from the time of the first inhabitants in the region right up to the Mongol Empire in the 13th century of the modern er...

Howard Barker

Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects. Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unset...

The Popes and Britain

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome's perspective was always considera...