Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959 - 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...

War die DDR eine gleichgeschaltete Gesellschaft von Staatsangestellten oder eine neue Klassengesellschaft ?

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of reci...

All Behind You, Winston

'No man, even the greatest, stands alone. This is the beautifully researched fate of those extraordinary men who stood behind Winston when it mattered most.' Michael Dobbs On 14 May 1940, the Even...

King Death

This illustrated survey examines what it was actually like to live with plague and the threat of plague in late-medieval and early modern England.; Colin Platt's books include The English Medieval To...

Between Kant & Hegel

This volume fills a lamentable gap in the philosophical literature by providing a collection of writings from the pivotal generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. It includes some of Hegel's ear...

OSS Station Victor

Over the past 1,000 years Hurley, in the County of Berkshire, has experienced its fair share of historic events, from royal visitations to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Modern history appears to ha...

What It's Like to Be Amish

Sam S. Stoltzfus spills over with stories that are centered in the Amish community where he has belonged since childhood. Told completely from inside the Old Order Amish world, Sam's 33 stories cover...

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of reci...