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Novela policial de base histórica-arqueológica Un secreto escondido durante siglos, lugares impregnados de magia, una historia de amor atormentada, una secta oculta. Estos son los ingredientes de una novela en la que la historia y la ironía, la arqueología y el misterio se mezclan pra crear una historia cautivadora. Un emocionante viaje a través del espacio y el tiempo desde los antiguos romanos hasta los cruzados en la Edad Media, desde el Imperio Bizantino hasta los Medici en el Renacimiento,...
| Автор | Stefano Conti |
Krótka historia I wojny światowej. Pierwszą wojnę światową określano mianem ”wojny, która zakończy wszystkie wojny”… Cóż to była za nietrafiona diagnoza. W tej zwięzłej relacji tego konfliktu przyglądamy się jego przyczynom, reakcjom na niego i wreszcie tym, którzy zapłacili za wojnę najwyższą cenę – życie. Często słyszy się opowieści o wielkim dramacie kolejnej wojny światowej. Jednakże historia I wojny zapewnia nam ogromną wiedzę, pozwalającą wyjaśnić kontekst II wojny. Gdyby ten pierwszy...
| Автор | History Nerds |
Una historia concisa de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Segunda Guerra Mundial empezó el 1 de septiembre de 1939 y, desde sus primeros disparos, dictó el tempo de esta nueva y modernizada manera de hacer la guerra. Fue una guerra como ninguna otra. Fue la guerra moderna. Superó a la Gran Guerra de los primeros años del siglo XX y eclipsó su escala y complejidad. En este libro nos ocuparemos de los momentos esenciales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: aquellos acontecimientos que definieron la...
| Автор | History Nerds |
Année 2017: la jeune universitaire Lucia Balleani, organisant et classant les textes de la bibliothèque de la fondation Hoenstaufen, se retrouve à travailler dans l'ancien palais qui avait été la résidence de la noble famille Baldeschi-Balleani, dont elle est une descendante directe. Une série de visions liées à ce qui est arrivé à son homonyme Lucia Baldeschi, amènera le lecteur à découvrir avec elle une histoire sombre qui s'est déroulée au même endroit 500 ans plus tôt. Dans une Jesi de la...
| Автор | Stefano Vignaroli |
Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers’ foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its position within the Soviet bloc. The book thereby places Czechoslovakia on the map of Cold War history, i.e. the era of “mutually assured destruction” that lasted almost half a century. It provides a lucid introduction to some milestones in international...
| Автор | Slavomír Michálek |
Als die sechzehnjährige Olivera aus Konstantinopel ihren Vater mit einer List dazu bringt, sie mit einem seiner Handelspartner zu verheiraten, ahnt sie nicht, welche lebensverändernden Folgen dies haben wird. Schon bald nimmt sie Abschied von der Heimat und bricht mit ihrem Gemahl auf zu einer langen Reise ins ferne Tübingen. Dort angekommen stößt sie nicht nur auf das Misstrauen der Einheimischen, auch ihr Liebster scheint sich mehr und mehr zu verändern. Es dauert nicht lange, bis Olivera...
| Автор | Silvia Stolzenburg |
Much has been written on the 1917–1920 revolution in Ukraine, on the national movement, the Makhnovists and the Bolsheviks. Yet there were others with a mass following whose role has faded from history books. One such party was the Borotbisty, the heirs of the mass Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, an independent party seeking to achieve national liberation and social emancipation. Though widely known in revolutionary Europe in their day, the Borotbisty were decimated during the...
| Автор | Ivan Maistrenko |
According to general Realist premises, after the end of the Cold War, the United States took an interest in remaining the only super power. Accordingly, it was attempting to maintain and manage unipolarity. The pursuit of this Grand Strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to the various receiving states. Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus played very unalike roles in that configuration: Whilst Poland was labeled “America’s best friend” by President George W. Bush,...
| Автор | Barbara Kunz |
Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularly difficult, since no fascist party admits to being fascist. Drawing on the critical insights of historical and linguistic research, this book offers an original and discerning approach to the...
| Автор | John E. Richardson |
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Slovakia through the eyes of prominent women whose acts and deeds on behalf of their fellow citizens remain unforgotten in the Slovak collective mind. The four chapters and three oral history interviews offer a captivating insight into how the situation...
| Автор | Josette Baer |
When Sophica was abruptly separated from her father as a toddler, she found a haven in Grandmother Gitté. But one sunny day in July, when she was six years old, gendarmes marching and shouting in the streets stopped her dreamy childhood and her hopes to go to school and to be a big girl like her sister. She was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania. On foot, through icy fields, they arrived in eastern Ukraine, a strip of land called...
| Автор | Avital Baruch |
Jeziorny’s gripping book explores British diplomatic relations in the years of 1933–1935, illuminating London’s attitude towards the Eastern Pact and highlighting the way of thinking and acting of British diplomacy towards the European and even global situation. Was His Majesty’s Government interested in the success of the initiative promoted by Moscow and Paris? Did they understand the motives of the promoteurs? How did they react to the resistance of countries unwilling to accept such an...
| Автор | Dariusz Jeziorny |
Die Geschichte ist eigentlich kaum zu glauben, die Christoph Kloft hier aus der Vergangenheit seiner Heimat erzählt. Doch die Geschehnisse, die der Autor romanhaft ausgeschmückt niederschreibt, haben einen historischen Kern. Da wird im Jahre 1930 in einem kleinen Westerwalddorf ein katholischer, konservativer Bauer Dorfbürgermeister. Er ist bekanntermaßen ein Nazi-Gegner, behält aber auch nach Hitlers Machtübernahme sein Amt und schafft es mit Beharrlichkeit und der Unterstützung der Mehrheit...
| Автор | Christoph Kloft |
Zusammengebrochen, verloren, für alle Zeiten von der politischen Landkarte Europas radiert. Die Geschichte Europas ist auch eine Geschichte verschwundener Reiche. Das stolze Alt Clud, heute ein heruntergekommener Landstrich in Schottland, das sagenumwobene Burgund oder das preußische Kernland der Prussen, im 12. Jahrhundert eine terra incognita, aber im Verlauf der Geschichte einer der einflussreichsten Staaten Europas: Norman Davies spürte 15 solcher Reiche vor Ort und in bisher...
| Автор | Norman Davies |
Der Dreißigjährige Krieg stürzt Deutschland in die Katastrophe. Der Magdeburger Brauherr Cord Heinrich Knoll verliert bei der Vernichtung seiner Heimatstadt alles, was ihm lieb und teuer ist: Frau, Kinder, die Brauerei. Als endlich Frieden herrscht, bekommt er die Chance, unter der Herrschaft des Prinzen Friedrich von Homburg dessen neue Brauerei zu Ehre und Ansehen zu führen. Doch dann droht neues Ungemach von höchster Stelle. Ausgerechnet der Große Kurfürst von Brandenburg zwingt den...
| Автор | Günther Thömmes |
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about Latvia’s fate in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima, a Latvian American who chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, Latvia, which in the 1980s languished behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her family’s past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She...
| Автор | Rita Laima |
A great wave of fundraising ‘patriotic’ associations followed in the wake of Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla, the scheme aimed to attract contributions towards aircraft production costs from throughout the British Empire. Any country, locality, or community that provided sufficient funds for...
| Автор | Margaret Hall |
This book, based on wide-ranging research on water, views the world through the rippling, complex lens of water. It looks at the emergence of civilizations and their decay, delves into creation myths, ponders the place of water in the human psyche as expressed in art and poetry and folklore, considers its role as a factor of production, a source of energy, a conduit of transportation, and a consumer good, examines changing concepts of physical and spiritual cleanliness, and notes the magical...
| Автор | Nina Selbst |
Conceived as the answer to all of mankind’s seemingly insoluble health and social problems, and promoted as a substitute for orthodox religious beliefs, the pseudo-science of eugenics recruited disciples in many countries during the latter years of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries. Nowhere was this doctrine more enthusiastically endorsed than in Germany, where the application of eugenic theory received its most fervent support. A programme born of what were often...
| Автор | Melvyn Conroy |
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development stand out. First, the country’s history is characterized by dramatic political discontinuity. In the past century, Russia changed its “historical skin” three times: following the disintegration of the...
| Автор | Igor Torbakov |
Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874–1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of an important Russian/Soviet writer basically unknown to the Western public. The focus on Yan and his work also impressively demonstrates the dominant role of ideology in a totalitarian society, which is not just a...
| Автор | Dmitry Shlapentokh |
Hans-J. Grünitz erinnert sich an seine Zeit als Wehrpflichtiger und Reservist der Nationalen Volksarmee. Detailgetreu schildert er das Leben eines gewöhnlichen Soldaten, lässt unmittelbar teilhaben an Drill, Kommissgeschichten, gelegentlichen Vergnügungen und schwerwiegender Gewissensentscheidung. 1977 eingezogen, gelingt ihm ein authentischer, anekdotenreicher Blick in den Militäralltag der DDR in den 1970er Jahren. Später erlebt er anlässlich einer Reserveübung die ersten...
| Автор | Hans-Joachim Grünitz |
This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers. Through discussions focusing upon class, camaraderie, violence, religion, trauma, and the body, this book considers these Irish soldiers within a cultural, social, and historical context. Central to this examination is the idea that...
| Автор | Robert Starr |
Steyr, im Jahr des Herrn 1388. Eine Serie grauenvoller Morde, renitente Ketzer und der fanatische Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker stürzen die Stadt in Angst und Schrecken. Angehörige der Waldenserbewegung werden als Ketzer gejagt und gefoltert, Scheiterhaufen lodern auf. Inmitten des rabenschwarzen Geschehens emittelt ein unerschrockenes Paar: Falk von Falkenstein und seine Frau Christine. Dann aber gerät Falk, der selbst ein furchtbares Geheimnis hütet, ins Visier des Inquisitors und damit in...
| Автор | Peter Orontes |