Echoes of Tattered Tongues - 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...

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...

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

'The Holocaust is a drug and I have entered an opium den . . . I will discover that there is no end to the dealers I can find for just one more hit. My parents don't even realize that they are drug de...

Wax to Crayons

An introduction to the process by which wax is transformed into crayons.

Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space

It is a time of darkness. With the end of the Clone Wars, and the destruction of the Jedi Order, the evil Emperor Palpatine rules the galaxy unopposed. When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abduc...

I Don't Like Reading

Meet Harry. Harry likes to play football, climb trees, and hang out with friends, but Harry doesn't like reading. That is until his teacher explains that Harry has dyslexia, which makes things like re...

Penny Lane and All That

A celebration of growing up in Liverpool's Penny Lane neighborhood in the 1940s and 1950s; the very place and time familiar to the Beatles who celebrated it in their well-known song of that name.