"Mehr als 3.500 wissenschaftliche Anmerkungen ordnen Hitlers Originaltext ein. Sie liefern Hintergrundinformationen zu den dargestellten Personen und Ereignissen, erläutern zentrale ideologische...

Der vorliegende Text bietet eine eindrucksvolle Schilderung des Verlustes eines geliebten Menschen und des Versuchs der Bewältigung des eigenen Davon-Gekommen-Seins über den Zeitraum von einem Jahr...

'There is something absolute about the letters between you & me; … The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit – … one that is faded & yet unimpeded, complete’, wrote Martin Heidegger to his...

The history of Austrian immigration to the United States is a widely under-researched field of study. In 1968 the American cultural diplomat E. Wilder Spaulding published his book, The Quiet...

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Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960's, Hong Ying, or Little Six as she was known, grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, a neighbourhood permanently veiled in fog and steeped in...

In this major biography, MacCaffrey focuses on Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her formative personal experiences, her temperament, her own view of her role, and...

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes­ sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub­ lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor...

Fulvia is the first full-length biography focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan...

Traces the life of Trebitsch Lincoln, a con man, revolutionary, spy, missionary, and British member of Parliament and attempts to portray his complex personality.

The FBI's file on the Soviet spy Otto Katz (1893-1952) called him "an extremely dangerous man." This label doesn't even begin to tell the story. Katz, a daring and treacherous Soviet spy, seemed...

Pocas veces, como en el caso de los Rajk, una familia encarnó la dramática historia de la Europa del siglo XX, atenazada por el fascismo y el comunismo. Los hermanos Endre y László tomaron caminos...

In Writing Against Hitler, Daniel Siemens reconstructs the history of the struggles of socialist intellectuals in Germany from the 1920s through the post-World War II era by focusing on the life of...

The story of a Czechoslovakian Jew, Heda Kovaly, who was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. She escaped the death camp and made her way back to Prague. But the horrors did not end with the...

A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost...