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Author : E. J. Feuchtwanger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Prussia: Myth and Reality written by E. J. Feuchtwanger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Joseph Feuchtwanger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Prussia written by Edgar Joseph Feuchtwanger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Prussia: Myth and Reality written by E. J. Feuchtwanger and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shulamit Ṿolḳov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Yahadût Prûsyā - Mîtôs Û-meṣî'ût written by Shulamit Ṿolḳov and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard P. Gross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813168392
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Myth and Reality of German Warfare written by Gerhard P. Gross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid--nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.
Author : Dr Petra Rau
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409475417
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950 written by Dr Petra Rau and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic study to trace the way representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature from 1890 to 1950 contributed to the development of English identity. Petra Rau examines the shift in attitudes towards Germany and Germans, from suspicious competitiveness in the late Victorian period to the aggressive hostility of the First World War and the curious inconsistencies of the 1930s and 1940s. These shifts were no simple response to political change but the result of an anxious negotiation of modernity in which specific aspects of Englishness were projected onto representations of Germans and Germany in English literature and culture. While this incisive argument clarifies and deepens our understanding of cultural and national politics in the first half of the twentieth century, it also complicates current debates surrounding race and 'otherness' in cultural studies. Authors discussed include major figures such as Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster and Bowen, as well as popular or less familiar writers such as Saki, Graham Greene, and Stevie Smith. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, Rau's study will not only be an important book for scholars but will serve as a valuable guide to undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations.
Author : Geoffrey Treasure
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134417659
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Europe, 1648-1780 written by Geoffrey Treasure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape. Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines: the evolution of the developing society detailed studies of the people, their environment, attitudes and beliefs economic aspects the growth of the states politics, war and diplomacy religion, intellectualism and science. This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.
Author : E. J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415216142
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Bismarck written by E. J. Feuchtwanger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in 19th-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure.
Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812214277
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806 written by Michael Hughes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all useful roads lead up to the creation of the nineteenth-century power state (Machstaat) or institutional state (Anstalstaat). In this kind of historiography, there are large "blank" areas between the "important" events like the Reformation, the Thiry Years War, the Seven Years War, and the French Revolution. During the intervals of apparent stagnation between these events, "Germany" seems to disappear, to be replaced by states such as Prussian and Austria, Saxony, Bavaria, and the Palatinate. Substantial areas are ignored, and groups such as the parliamentary Estates, which stood in the way of state-building, are virtually written out of most accounts. Rather than focusing on the separate histories of the individual German states, Michael Hughes looks to the structure of the Holy Roman Empire in its final centuries and writes an account of Germany as a functioning, federative state, with institutions capable of reform and modernization. For nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians, the Empire was seen as the embodiment of division and weakness. But by examining the first Reich, Hughes reveals the persistence of the idea of Germanness and German national feeling during a period when, according to most accounts, Germany had virtually ceased to exist. At the same time, he examines "the element of continuity in Germany's development . . . in an attempt to discover how far back in Germany's past it is necessary to go to find the roots of the 'German problem,' the Germans' search for a political expression of their strongly developed awareness of cultural unity."
Author : Cyril Buffet
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819406
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Haunted by History written by Cyril Buffet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the origin and propagation of myths in international relations. The 16 contributions demonstrate how formative historical events are often transformed into handy cliche s which are subsequently drawn on by politicians and journalists who apply these simplistic patterns to current events. Myths discussed include the Spanish Civil War, Yalta, British difference, and the German Sonderweg. The book focuses on the relationship of these myths to current policy-making. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Margaret Shennan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134793979
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia written by Margaret Shennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pamphlet Margaret Shennan surveys the rise of Prussia from the early seventeenth century to 1740, highlighting and evaluating the role of its rulers, in particular of Frederick William I, the Great Elector, and his two successors. The author takes account of: * international relations * social and economic structures * domestic pressures * ethical and cultural influences * idiosyncratic personalities * terrain and boundaries.
Author : Louis R. Eltscher
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532046774
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Traitors or Patriots? written by Louis R. Eltscher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known today of the extent and intensity of the anti-Nazi activity that occurred inside Hitler’s Germany. Even less is known about those whose courage and conviction drove them to risk—and lose—everything to bring the Third Reich to an end. Drawing on extensive sources, author Louis R. Eltscher examines the role of the German anti-Nazi resistance inside the Third Reich in Traitors or Patriots? Beginning with the post–World War I German society that led to Hitler’s role as führer, Eltscher documents the rise of anti-Nazi activity, different types of resistance groups, and the difficulties in achieving organization. In addition, Eltscher discusses the role of the German Army in detail. He reveals how the resistance determined that Hitler’s elimination by the German Army remained the key to success. Eltscher profiles key resistance figures, considers the reality of an omnipresent totalitarian police state, and studies the moral issues the resistors faced. Presented within the broader context of German history and contemporary world events, this comprehensive study relies on extensive historiography by noted scholars to produce a well-balanced, timely narrative of the German resistance to one of history’s most violent regimes. In its second edition, Traitors or Patriots? tells a story of incredible courage and conviction that transcends time and place—a story for our own time and for all time.
Author : United States. Department of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Newsletter written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nina Witoszek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812698
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Culture and Crisis written by Nina Witoszek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often argued that Germany and Scandinavia stand at two opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Though, in many respects, they have a shared cultural inheritance, it is nevertheless the case that they mobilize different mythologies and different modes of coping when faced with breakdown and disorder. The authors argue that it is at these "critical junctures," points of crisis and innovation in the life of communities, that the tradition and identity of national and local communities are formed, polarized, and revalued; it is here that social change takes a particular direction.
Author : Michael V. Leggiere
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145676
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Blücher written by Michael V. Leggiere and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Throughout his long career, Blücher distinguished himself as a bold commander, but his actions at times appeared erratic and reckless. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an award-winning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English to explore Blücher’s life and military career—and his impact on Napoleon. Drawing on exhaustive research in European archives, Leggiere eschews the melodrama of earlier biographies and offers instead a richly nuanced portrait of a talented leader who, contrary to popular perception, had a strong grasp of military strategy. Nicknamed “Marshal Forward” by his soldiers, he in fact retreated more often than he attacked. Focusing on the campaigns of 1813, 1814, and 1815, Leggiere evaluates the full effects of Blücher’s operations on his archenemy. In addition to providing military analysis, Leggiere draws extensively from Blücher’s own writings to reveal the man behind the legend. Though tough as nails on the outside, Blücher was a loving family man who deplored the casualties of war. This meticulously written biography, enhanced by detailed maps and other illustrations, fills a large gap in our understanding of a complex man who, for all his flaws and eccentricities, is justly credited with releasing Europe from the yoke of Napoleon’s tyranny.
Author : Edgar Feuchtwanger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684311
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Bismarck written by Edgar Feuchtwanger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure. He traces his development from a typical Junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white revolutionary who recast European affairs more drastically than anyone since Napoleon. This second edition includes a new introduction, taking into account the most recent scholarship on Bismarck, which reflects on Bismarck's legacy in modern Germany, which is once again the European economic powerhouse for which Bismarck laid the foundations. Feuchtwanger's lucid account demythologizes the German leader without demonising him. This book leaves the reader with a strongly-etched portrait of one of the decisive makers of the modern world.
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book History written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
