Militarizing Men - Prijzen

Germania

'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up w...

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...

Kunst, Künstler und Mäzene - Die Stiftungen der Fugger

KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 30 - Territories of Faith

A novel and interdisciplinary perspective on post-war church buildingIn the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisa...

England & Its Rulers 4E

This is an updated and expanded edition of a classic introduction to medieval England from the reign of William the Conqueror to Edward I. * Includes a new chapter on family and gender roles, revision...

Top Secret

The early years of the 20th Century saw many advances in technology, for example aeroplanes were taking to the skies and wireless telegraphy becoming more widely available. There were also new war mac...

Swansea in the 1950s

The 1950s. The mid-point of the twentieth century. When those born in the nineteenth century met their grandchildren who would live in the twenty-first. A pivotal moment, certainly. And is it really t...

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse the life of Oliv...

English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640

This book offers an alternative interpretation of pre-Civil War England, challenging the standard narrative that English presbyterianism was successfully extinguished from the late sixteenth century u...

Protecting Marie

Fanny has wanted a dog all her life. For a brief moment her dream came true, but then her father decided the puppy brought too much chaos to his neat, ordered home. Fanny has never been able to forgiv...