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Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane,...
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Step into the heart of an 18th-century conflict that reshaped nations and redrew borders. From the battlefields of Europe to colonial showdowns across the globe, this gripping tale unveils the intricate dance of power between empires, the genius tactics of visionary leaders, and the high-stakes diplomacy that sought to mend the chaos. Discover the rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great, the naval clashes that rocked the seas, and the explosive...
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Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism....
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Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is professor and chair of early modern history at the University of Münster in Germany. Her many books include her acclaimed biography of Maria Theresa, which won Germany's prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017, and The Emperor's Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire. Yair Mintzker is professor of history at Princeton University. His books include The Many Deaths of...
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The Seven Years War (1756-1763) marked the first truly world-wide conflict following the expansion of European colonies, sparking engagements across India to Canada. As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between England and France, alongside the newly emergent Prussia and Austria, led to a conflict that dragged many other nations into the strife. An excellent account...
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The Seven Years War (1756-1763) marked the first truly world-wide conflict following the expansion of European colonies, sparking engagements across India to Canada. As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between England and France, alongside the newly emergent Prussia and Austria, led to a conflict that dragged many other nations into the strife. An excellent account...
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Story of a French WWII prisoner of war internment in Nazi POW camps and escape. Helion was a painter who lived in the United States and married an American. He returned to the French army at the eve of WWII and was captured in the debacle, which he narrates well. He escaped in 1942, eventually returning to the US where he wrote this memoir in English.
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In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by...
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HERE is the story of a great love and a great sacrifice and of a queen's work built on that sacrifice. It takes us back five hundred years, to the brilliant court of that King Louis of Hungary who ruled the half of Europe - the court where his gifted youngest daughter, Jadwiga, grew up. It takes us to Vienna, for Jadwiga was betrothed to the young Crown Prince of Austria. Then to Krakow, early capital of Poland, where Jadwiga was called as queen and...
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Until the Treaty of Versailles the Polish nation was without a country. For more than a century the buffer-state of Central Europe had no representation on the map. Today when the area, population and resources must be recognized and her strategic position taken into account, Poland remains to many people of the Western world merely the name of a country. That is the reason for this book. It is not intended as a history of Poland nor yet is it an...
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First published in 1941, this is a biography written by the wife of Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), the Polish statesman who was Chief of State from 1918-1922, "First Marshal of Poland" from 1920, de facto leader of the Second Polish Republic from 1926-1935, and Minister of Military Affairs. He had a major influence in Poland's politics from mid-World War I onwards and was an important figure on the European political scene. Piłsudski was also the...
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Suivez le destin d'hommes et de femmes qui ont contribué à sauver des milliers de juifs durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
« Certains luttèrent à leur manière contre la peste brune, comme Oskar Schindler, un Allemand, Varian Fry, un Américain, ou même encore Aristides de Sousa Mendès, un diplomate portugais en poste à Bordeaux qui sauva de la mort plusieurs dizaines de milliers de juifs contre la volonté de son gouvernement de Lisbonne....
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