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The First World War - And the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918

The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Joseph's role in the conflict, a...

1956 - "...To leave a Sign"

A brave man roamed the streets of Budapest at that time. He took photographs. Between October 23rd and November 11th of 1956. So that the...

Hidden in Berlin - A Holocaust Memoir

Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness. L...

A History of Britain - 1945 through Brexit

The British vote to leave the European Union stunned everyone 2016, but was it really a surprise? In this revised and updated edition of ...

Post-imperial Encounters - Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere, 1917-1922

In the former Russian province of Bessarabia united with Romania in 1918, local inhabitants tried to make sense of the new reality by mas...

Comrade Baron - A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy

A Magyarországon élő holland író nagy sikerű könyvének angol nyelvű kiadása. Az interjúkon alapuló dokumentumregény az egykori erdélyi ar...

1945 in Berlin - Untergang und Aufbruch

Das Buch zeigt Berlin im schlimmsten Moment seiner Geschichte. Wie die Stadt erobert wird und mehr als 200.000 Menschen in den letzten Ta...

Oskar Schindler - Steven Spielberg - Wer ein einziges Leben rettet, rettet die ganze Welt

Oskar Schindler, der erfolgreiche Kriegsgewinnler und Nazi mit Goldenem Parteiabzeichen, beschäftigt 1943 in seiner Deutschen Emailleware...

Astrid Lindgren und der Zweite Weltkrieg - Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an Leben und Schreiben in Zeiten des Krieges

Astrid Lindgrens edierte ,Kriegstagebücher 1939-1945', die sowohl in Schweden als auch in Deutschland erstmals 2015 publiziert wurden, si...

Rise and Kill First

From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to defend the Jewish people has been hardwired into ...

Industrie und Holocaust - Topf & Söhne - Die Ofenbauer von Auschwitz

Für den millionenfachen Mord in den Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagern brauchte die SS zivile Experten, unter denen die Erfurter Firm...

Vor aller Augen - Die Deportation der Juden und die Versteigerung ihres Eigentums. Fotografien aus Lörrach 1940

Die im Stadtarchiv Lörrach erhaltenen Fotografien der Deportation von Juden aus Lörrach und der Umgebung der Stadt am 22. Oktober 1940 st...

British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War - Germany, National Socialism and the Political Warfare Executive

This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focus...

Nazi-Deutsch in 22 Lektionen. Nazi-German in 22 Lessons. - Mit hilfreichen Informationen für Führer, Saboteure, Gauleiter und Quislinge. Nachdruck eine Flugblattes des britischen Informationsministeriums aus dem Jahr 1942.

Über die fatale Logik von Propaganda - und wie sie durch Satire überwunden werden kann ¿Lektion 16 - Dekadente Nationen ¿Nationen, die [....

Dieppe - A Necessary Failure

On the eightieth anniversary of the disastrous raid on Dieppe, this is the compelling story of the failures in its planning and execution...

Poland: General Government August 1941-1945

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically c...

A rendszerváltás válsága - The crisis of the regime change

Kétnyelvű könyvünkkel az a célunk, hogy mérleget vonjunk a rendszerváltás "értelméről". Az elmúlt húsz évet vesszük górcső alá, azt a maj...

Buchenwald - Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945

The catalogue to the new permanent exhibition at the Buchenwald Memorial. The Buchenwald concentration camp was located less than ten kil...

The Last Consolation Vanished - The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

"The Last Consolation Vanished is a unique first-person Holocaust account. It is by Zalmen Gradowski, who was one of the Sonderkommandos ...

The history of world war II

The Greek Revolution - 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YE...

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future - Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War

In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidari...

Orthodoxy in the Agora - Orthodox Christian Political Theologies Across History

The radical socio-political changes in the wake of the fall of communism in many predominantly Orthodox countries of Eastern and Southeas...

The Forbidden Daughter - The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

"The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi ...

A Brilliant Life - My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust

The powerful true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter that is as uplifting and astonishing as it is heart wrenching.

The Last Ships from Hamburg - Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

From critically-acclaimed historian Steven Ujifusa, a propulsive human drama with global ramifications set at the turn of the 20th Centur...

The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information ? and misinformation. Is it possi...

The Ravine - A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

Winner, 2022 National Jewish Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Wingate Literary Prize A single photograph?an exceptionally rare ?action shot? do...

The Bohemians - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

"A detailed and meticulously researched tale… that reads like a thriller."-New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-sellin...

Kriegsgeschädigte und europäische Nachkriegsgesellschaften im 20. Jahrhundert

Kriegsschädigungen waren kein gesellschaftliches Randphänomen, sondern ein zentrales Merkmal europäischer Kriegsfolgengesellschaften des ...

On the Death of Jews - Photographs and History

"A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures..."-L'Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of L...

A Woman I Know - Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

"The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA se...

Lovers in Auschwitz - A True Story

"The "mesmerizing and inspirational" (Judy Batalion) true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be sepa...

The Power of Humanity

The nastiest aspect of the Second World War was the industry with which Germany and its allies and in its turn the USSR attacked not only...

Propaganda des Terrors - Plakate des NS-Staates ¿zwischen 1933 und 1945 - Propaganda Posters of the Nazi Terror Regime

"I realised early on that the proper use of propaganda is a real art." - Adolf Hitler "After all, who brought the National Socialist Move...

November 1918 - The German Revolution

The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.

Myths of Wewelsburg Castle - Facts and Fiction

Wewelsburg Castle in Germany figures prominently in right-wing conspiracy theories and popular culture. This book sheds light onto the ba...

Takeover - Hitler's Final Rise to Power

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitl...

The Western Front - A History of the First World War

**Pre-order the latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, today** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK O...

The German Occupation Rule on Crete 1941-1945

In contrast to the Greek mainland, the Nazis occupied most of Crete between 1941 - 45. After the German troops' defeat in North Africa, C...

Lawrence in Arabia - War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor NPR The Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Tribune A New York...

The Theory and Practice of Hell - The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them

By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discov...

Endpapers - A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

A portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration.

The Pope and Mussolini - The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From National Book Award finalist David I. Ker...

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world The product of a decade of intrepid research, S...

Hiroshima - The World's Bomb

The international history of the development of the atomic bomb, its first use against Japan, and the Cold War nuclear arms race that it ...

I Am the Storm - My Odyssey from the Holocaust to the Frontiers of Medicine

Morrell Avram, born in Bucharest, could have easily become one of the 200,000 Romanian Jews killed by the German Nazis or their Romanian ...

Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

"This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Hen...

Home after Fascism - Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust

"Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian an...

The Lost Children - Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II

World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governmen...

Deserteure der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS - Entziehungsformen, Solidarität, Verfolgung

Deserteure der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS brachen im Zweiten Weltkrieg mit dem NS-Staat. Sie überschritten in vielfacher Weise Grenzen: ...

Zeichne, was Du siehst - Zeichnungen eines Kindes aus Theresienstadt/Terezin

Am 10. Dezember 1941 wurde Helga Weissová, ein zwölfjähriges jüdisches Mädchen aus Prag, nach Theresienstadt deportiert. »Zeichne, was Du...

Léon Blum - Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

A new appreciation of the extraordinary life and legacy of Leon Blum, the first Jewish prime minister of France

The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art...

Amerikaner in Baumholder - Der Weg vom Besatzer zum Freund

Why did all the officials turn pale when then First Lady Hillary Clinton had to go to the bathroom? Why was Baumholder once the largest c...

The Origins of the First World War

A second edition of the leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system.

Nazi Empire - German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler

Examines the history of Germany from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the 'tension of empire'.

The Battle for Moscow - Barbarism: Triumph in the West

This is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...

Sachsenhausen. The 'concentration camp by the "Reich" capital' - Formation and development

Sachsenhausen. The 'concentration camp by the "Reich" capital'

Struwwelhitler. A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit - A wartime parody of the famous Slovenly Peter or Shock Headed Peter (Struwwelpeter)

Struwwelhitler A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit Produced in wartime, it might have been a modest volume of small dimensions pr...