The Stasi Poetry Circle
Author | : Philip Oltermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-02 |
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ISBN | : 9780571331208 |
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Author | : Philip Oltermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780571331208 |
Author | : Philip Oltermann |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0571279910 |
In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries to explain German cuisine to the Iron Lady, the Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush with the Baader-Meinhof gang. Keeping Up with the Germans is a witty look at the lighter-side of Anglo-German relations over the last 100 years.
Author | : Michael Balfour |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571303773 |
What were the consequences for Germany, and the world, that William II was Kaiser at the onset of the 'Great War'? In The Kaiser and His Times (first published in 1964), Michael Balfour analyzes the social, constitutional, and economic forces at work in imperial Germany, and sets the complex and disputed character of the Kaiser, who occupied such a central position in the three decades before 1918, in the context of his family background and the history of Germany. '[Balfour] has borne in mind the Kaiser's own request to the head of his military Secretariat - 'Not dry reports only, please, but now and then a funny story.' The circumstances that allowed to Kaiser to live as if 'The greater part of his life... was illusion' would make comic reading if the results had not been so tragic...' Kirkus Review
Author | : Andrew Pettegree |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2023-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541604350 |
A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath—one ranks among humanity’s greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history—for both good and ill. With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power—and the ambivalence—of words at war.
Author | : Matthew Stibbe |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2023-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526157470 |
In November 1918 a revolution overthrew the old imperial system in Germany and inaugurated a republic. The revolution was formally completed in August 1919 when the social democrat Friedrich Ebert was sworn in as president. By this time, however, many of the revolution’s original aims and intentions had been swallowed up by new political concerns and lived experiences. For contemporaries the meaning of ‘9 November’ changed, becoming increasingly contested between rival parties, military experts and scholars. This book examines how the debate on the revolution has evolved from August 1919 to the present day. It takes the reader through the ideological battles of the 1920s and 30s into the equally politicised historical writing of the cold war period. It ends with a consideration of the marginalisation of the revolution in academic research since the 1980s, and its revival from 2010.
Author | : John A. Moses |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2024-05-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
St. Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, has bequeathed guidelines for both personal and political behavior to individual citizens and to states that have retained their relevance to humanity to this day. However, his statement in Romans 13 that “the powers-that-be are ordained of God” has been interpreted in conflicting ways, especially since the time of Martin Luther in sixteenth-century Germany. Luther’s occasional insistence that the ruler had to be obeyed unquestionably led to a political culture in Prusso-Germany that was systematized by the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831). His teachings gave rise to the disastrous ultra-authoritarian regimes of both Marxist-Leninism (left-wing Hegelianism) and National Socialism (right-wing Hegelianism). The author of this book, being equipped with a long training in Prusso-German history, has explained how this happened and why both Imperial Germany and the Nazi Third Reich unleashed expansionist wars and justified them with ideologies that were both hostile to Western European and transatlantic democratic, parliamentary values. The author’s familiarity with the contemporary history of both the liberal-parliamentary West Germany and the authoritarian communist East Germany has enabled him to portray the internecine German debate that was largely influenced by the remarkable ministry of the martyred Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Author | : Margy Gerber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tina Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307773582 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Author | : Frederick Taylor |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780712629140 |
Author | : Edith Sheffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199314616 |
Examines "Burned Bridge," the intersection between two sister cities in East and West Germany, and reveals how the daily adjustments of anxious residents shaped the barrier that divided them.