The Stasi Poetry Circle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stasi Poetry Circle write by Philip Oltermann. This book was released on 2023-02-02. The Stasi Poetry Circle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Keeping Up With the Germans
Keeping Up With the Germans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keeping Up With the Germans write by Philip Oltermann. This book was released on 2012-01-31. Keeping Up With the Germans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Kaiser and His Times
The Kaiser and His Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kaiser and His Times write by Michael Balfour. This book was released on 2013-05-14. The Kaiser and His Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Book at War
The Book at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book at War write by Andrew Pettegree. This book was released on 2023-12-05. The Book at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19
Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19 write by Matthew Stibbe. This book was released on 2023-05-23. Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
