Meghan - 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...

Echoes of Tattered Tongues

A searing memoir. Shelf Awareness Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard. Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois Devastating, one-of-a-kind collection. Foreword Reviews Gut-wrenching...

The Ebro 1938

The Battle of the Ebro was the last Republican offensive of the Spanish Civil War and the final opportunity to defeat Franco's Nationalist forces. This campaign volume looks at both sides' tactics, ar...

Geschichte der Stadt Innsbruck

Menschen, die Geschichte schrieben

Viele historische Persönlichkeiten sind von den Legenden und Anekdoten, die über ihr Leben erzählt werden, nicht mehr zu trennen. Schon immer haben Menschen in der Geschichte nach Vorbildern und Feind...

Ready for Hillary?

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first First Lady to have her own office in the West Wing of the White House and the only First Lady ever to be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. Upon leaving th...

Kursk: Film tie in

____________________ NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SEYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . . . heart-breaking, humane and, at times, all...

Becoming a Mountain

Hailed as a ''wondrous book'' by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature, a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was rai...

Necroscope No 1

Harry Keogh is a necroscope - he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves. Unfortunately for Harry, his talent works both ways. The outer limits of horror are unleashed when Harry Keogh is recrui...