Títulos en Alemania

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling audiobook provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications.

One man had a single goal…to eliminate Hitler from the face of the Earth. Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Fhrer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took the skills from his craft and worked to assemble his own bomb detonator.

In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.

Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he explores the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work.

In the wake of World War I, the German army lay in ruins - defeated in the war, sundered by domestic upheaval, and punished by the Treaty of Versailles. A mere 20 years later, Germany possessed one of the finest military machines in the world, capable of launching a stunning blitzkrieg attack against Poland in 1939. Well-known military historian Robert M. Citino shows how Germany accomplished this astonishing reversal and developed the doctrine, tactics, and technologies that its military would use to devastating effect in World War II.

El 14 de junio de 1940, Alemania había conquistado Francia. Hitler, ebrio de felicidad, no podía creer lo alcanzado. Había conquistado la mitad de Europa en tiempo récord. Sin embargo, la II Guerra Mundial tomaría en el futuro, un nuevo curso. En las secretas calles de la ciudad, se organizaba, secreta, una gran resistencia. Muy pronto el Reich sabría de lo que son capaces.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged - soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians, even a carpenter - who would try repeatedly to end the Fuhrer's genocidal reign. This dramatic and deeply researched book tells the full story of those noble, ingenious, and doomed efforts.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston...

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring their story to life, the narrative follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counter-offensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942-43. 

Ulrike Herrmann erzählt die Geschichte der sozialen Marktwirtschaft und macht Schluss mit Legenden und den falschen Mythen vom Wirtschaftswunder. Deutschland ist reich, aber die gängigen Erklärungen sind falsch. So soll Ludwig Erhard der Vater des Wirtschaftswunders gewesen sein - in Wahrheit...

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...

Trent'anni fa crollava il Muro di Berlino, simbolo della guerra fredda e della divisione del mondo tra Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica. Ezio Mauro, ex direttore di La Stampa e Repubblica (e autore di "Anime prigioniere. Cronache dal muro di Berlino", edito da Feltrinelli) e Tonia Mastrobuoni, corrispondente da Berlino, raccontano la storia del Muro con il piglio del cronista: dalla divisione di Berlino dopo la II Guerra Mondiale alla costruzione del Muro nel 1961, fino alla caduta del 9 novembre 1989.

The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They...

Günter Guillaume war ganz nah dran an Willi Brandt. Als der DDR-Agent enttarnt wurde, trat der Kanzler zurück - es war die größte Spionageaffäre der deutschen Geschichte. Doch Guillaume war nur die Spitze des Eisbergs, es gab Tausende Stasi-Spitzel, die aus dem "Operationsgebiet" BRD berichteten. Über Jahre hinweg streuten sie aktiv Fehlinformationen, um die BRD-Regierungen und führende Persönlichkeiten zu diffamieren. Heribert Schwan hat über 80.000 Seiten Stasi-Akten gesichtet, um die Ausmaße der DDR-Spionage im Westen nachzuvollziehen.

Trent'anni fa crollava il Muro di Berlino, simbolo della guerra fredda e della divisione del mondo tra Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica. Ezio Mauro, ex direttore di La Stampa e Repubblica (e autore di "Anime prigioniere. Cronache dal muro di Berlino", edito da Feltrinelli) e Tonia Mastrobuoni, corrispondente da Berlino, raccontano - in tre puntate - la storia del Muro con il piglio del cronista: dalla divisione di Berlino dopo la II Guerra Mondiale alla costruzione del Muro nel 1961, fino alla caduta del 9 novembre 1989.

Trent'anni fa crollava il Muro di Berlino, simbolo della guerra fredda e della divisione del mondo tra Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica. Ezio Mauro, ex direttore di La Stampa e Repubblica (e autore di "Anime prigioniere. Cronache dal muro di Berlino", edito da Feltrinelli) e Tonia Mastrobuoni, corrispondente da Berlino, raccontano la storia del Muro con il piglio del cronista: dalla divisione di Berlino dopo la II Guerra Mondiale alla costruzione del Muro nel 1961, fino alla caduta del 9 novembre 1989.

Il termine "assolutismo illuminato" fa riferimento alle idee e ai comportamenti di quei sovrani europei che nel '700 dichiaravano di volersi servire del potere per il bene dei loro sudditi e che si professavano amici e discepoli dei philosophes francesi. Il più famoso di questi fu il re di Prussia Federico II il Grande, scrittore prolifico, musicista di un certo valore, irreligioso, amico di Voltaire.

År 1946 stod 21 tyska ledare inför rätta framför en internationell tribunal i Nürnberg. Richard Overy ser på hur dessa rättegångar formade den internationella attityden mot nationers brott på 1900-talet, och undersöker om de principer som upprättades där skulle kunna-eller borde-överleva under 2000-talet. Det har varit mycket prat om krigsbrotten sedan kriget bröt ut i Irak 2003. En del misslyckade försök har gjorts för att hålla amerikanska och brittiska ledare ansvariga för att de fört ett anfallskrig som brutit mot internationella överenskommelser.

"Lesen und an die Vergangenheit denken" - ein historischer Roman. Eingebunden in das dörfliche Leben auf einem Bauernhof um 1830, ist es der Erbrichter Karl Gotthilf Steiger, welcher das Dorf Nassau durch eine gegründete Genossenschaft zur Entfronung vom Kammergut Rechenberg-Bienenmühle führte. Seinen unbeugsamen Willen und umsichtigen Handeln ist es zu verdanken, dass er die hohe Kaufsumme von 34.000 Taler aus Bürgschaften von Begüterten zum Abkauf aufbringen konnte.