Resultados para "Engel" en Historia

Entre 1520 y 1522 Castilla estaba en llamas. Carlos I y su recién inaugurado poder imperial fue desafiado por un ejército popular a cuyo mando se encontraban nombres heroicos como Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo y Francisco Maldonado... y el poderoso rugido de una mujer, María Pacheco, que atrincherada en el alcázar de Toledo lideró la resistencia en los estertores de la revolución. Estas páginas conducirán al lector hasta las entrañas de un tiempo tan breve como decisivo para entender el devenir no solo de Castilla, sino de España.

Verbotene Schlittenfahrten auf der zugeschneiten Dorfstraße, betrunkene Weihnachtsmänner und ein Pfarrer, der Frauen (durch Gebet natürlich) verschwinden lässt. Gerhard Fischer erzählt aus seiner Jugendzeit in Hitlerdeutschland, den Nachkriegsjahren und von seinen Erlebnissen als Pfarrer im Reisedienst. Ansteckend und fröhlich, nachdenklich und eindringlich berichtet er von Lebens- und Glaubenserfahrungen.

In 1878, Elder Joseph Standing traveled into the Appalachian mountains of North Georgia, seeking converts for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sixteen months later, he was dead, murdered by a group of 12 men. Most accounts of this event have linked Standing's murder to the virulent 19th-century anti-Mormonism that also took the life of prophet Joseph Smith and to an enduring southern tradition of extralegal violence.  

She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly - except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly...

In Understanding the Holocaust, Professor David Engel examines the encounter between Germany's Third Reich and the Jews of the 20 European countries that fell under Nazi domination between 1933 and 1945. The results of this encounter stretch human comprehension to the limit and raise frightening questions about the human condition. When it was over, two-thirds of Europe's Jews, some 5.8 million people, had died - and their deaths had occurred amid the most gruesome of circumstances.

The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address, yet his rallying cry to the nation was about more than just national security or why Americans should care about a fight still far overseas. He instead identified how Americans defined themselves as a people, with words that resonated and defined the parameters of American politics and foreign policy for generations.

Der neue Antisemitismus und das alte Schweigen Der brutale Terroranschlag der Hamas vom 7. Oktober ist zu einer Nagelprobe politischer und moralischer Haltung weltweit geworden. Das Schweigen der deutschen Linken und der Jubel muslimischer Einwanderer, die Unterstützung der Palästinenser durch...

Ein harter Austausch zu Nahost Der Anschlag vom 7. Oktober und der Gazakrieg haben die Lage im Nahen Osten dramatisch verändert. Aber auch in Deutschland: Plötzlich werden Dinge ausgesprochen, die lange ein Tabu waren, plötzlich radikalisieren sich auch hier die Haltungen. Selbst unter...

Uncover the epic rise and brutal erasure of a lost civilization in this immersive journey through medieval Asian history. Perfect for your daily commute, this dramatic narrative transports you to the treacherous crossroads of the Silk Road. Witness how a fierce band of pastoral warriors defied...

DØDENS ENGEL FRA AUSCHWITZ handler om lægen Josef Mengele, der i 1943 ankommer til koncentrationslejren i Auschwitz. Mengele står for inddelingen af de jøder, der ankommer til lejren. Til venstre dem der skal dræbes, til højre de arbejdsduelige. Til sig selv udvælger han tvillingepar, som han udsætter for grusomme og absurde forsøg. Videnskaben har altid eksperimenteret på mennesker, og resultaterne har haft stor betydning for meget af det, vi i dag ved om menneskekroppen og sindet.

First there is Adam Weinberger's long childhood, in a world that has no idea yet what is in store for it. The childhood of a lover of illusions, who dreams of changing the world and of freeing his family from the burden of a tradition that he finds unbearable. The adolescence of a young boy who is unable to express his love for Esther, his admiration for his uncle, his tenderness toward his mother.The helplessness of a young man who sees that dreams and fiction are unable to halt the destruction of this world and of its inhabitants.

Sune Engel Rasmussen har tilbragt længere tid i Afghanistan siden 2001 end nogen anden dansk journalist. "Nyt blod" er baseret på reportager gennem tre år, hvor han boede permanent i landet, og handler om de afghanere, der er vokset op i en verden formet på godt og ondt af reaktionerne på terrorangrebene i USA den 11. september. Han tager læseren til frontlinjen, på motorcykel rundt i Kabul og langt ud i ørkenen. Vi møder Taleban-krigere, homoseksuelle, rigmandssønner og en ny generation af kvinder.

In the decade following the first Gulf War, most observers regarded it as an exemplary effort by the international community to lawfully and forcefully hold a regional aggressor in check. Interpretations have changed with the times. The Gulf War led to the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia, an important contributing cause of the 9/11 attacks. The war also led to a long obsession with Saddam Hussein that culminated in a second, far longer, American-led war with Iraq.

Four experts on the American presidency examine the first three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today. Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also...

Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore lives a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive.

The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007.