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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...

A Critical Commentary on The Taktika of Leo VI

"The Taktika, ascribed to the hand of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI ""the Wise"" (886-912), is perhaps one of the best-known middle Byzantine texts of an official or semi-official genre. Presented in t...

European Culture Since 1848

Emerging from the growing convergence of intellectual and social history as well as the new interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, European Culture Since 1848 is the first book designed for unde...

The Night of Broken Glass

November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisone...

Ohne die Mauer hätte es Krieg gegeben

A Dance with Dragons (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESDon’t miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six...

Red Air Force at War Barbarossa and the Retreat to Moscow

The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the c...

A Critical Commentary on The Taktika of Leo VI

"The Taktika, ascribed to the hand of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI ""the Wise"" (886-912), is perhaps one of the best-known middle Byzantine texts of an official or semi-official genre. Presented in t...

British Female Emigration Societies and the New World, 1860-1914

This book focuses on the departure of Britain's 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of wom...