Résultats pour "A" dans Europe

März 1933: Die freie Welt steht am Abgrund. Während die Nazis ihre Gegner brutal verfolgen, steckt Amerika tief in der Krise. Und doch sind die USA Zufluchtsort – für Albert Einstein, den die Nazis mit einem Kopfgeld jagen; für George Grosz, der von Amerika aus um seine Söhne in Berlin bangt. Marlene Dietrich wird in Hollywood von Goebbels umworben. Die First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt liebt derweil eine Frau und versucht verzweifelt, mehr jüdische Flüchtlinge ins Land zu holen.

"NOW THERE ARE FIELDS WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD" —OVID During the great migrations of the second millennium BC, peoples from Western Europe-known as Achaeans or Sea Peoples-arrived in the Mediterranean region, either to settle there peacefully or to plunder and raze the land. They brought about...

Set sail on a gripping journey through one of history’s most extraordinary empires. The History of the Portuguese Empire: Ships, Souls, and Silver brings to life the rise and fall of a maritime kingdom that reshaped the world. From stormy Atlantic coasts to the spice-scented ports of India, from the jungles of Brazil to the fortified enclaves of Africa and Asia, Portugal’s empire stretched across continents.

Hunderttausende Deutsche flohen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor der Roten Armee aus Ostpreußen und Königsberg. Immer wieder gingen Kinder auf der Flucht verloren oder erlebten die Ermordung der eigenen Familie. Andere mussten ohnmächtig mit ansehen, wie ihre Geschwister verhungerten, die Großeltern aus Schwäche starben oder die Mutter einer Epidemie erlag. Auf sich allein gestellt, überlebten diese Kinder in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Man nannte sie „Wolfskinder".

The assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't just ignite the fuse to the tinderbox that was Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. When war was declared and the soldiers set off to fight the "war to end all wars," World War I realigned nations, sent their economies reeling, and toppled thrones and classes. Hungary was a particularly vivid example of how quickly a nation's fate could plummet from empire to supplicant.

Il Vaticano è un luogo unico, un'isola di ineguagliabile bellezza. Nelle sue pietre sono incisi quasi due millenni di eventi tumultuosi, di ardente spiritualità, aberrante crudeltà e fuoco creativo. Oggi è lo Stato più piccolo del mondo, ma in esso è concentrato un patrimonio culturale e artistico immenso.

Family Business: Gier, Geld, Geheimnisse erzählt die Geschichten großer Familien und schillernder Dynastien. Die Schwestern Anna Dushime und Amélia Umuhire geben Einblicke in das Innere von Familien, die über Jahrzehnte oder gar Jahrhunderte Unternehmen und Imperien gelenkt haben. Denn die ganz großen Dramen der Weltgeschichte um Macht, Geld und Einfluss spielen sich nicht selten in Familien ab.

伝説の学習参考書『大学への世界史の要点』が、最新情報＋全面改訂で「読みやすく」「わかりやすく」再登場！ 佐藤優氏が40年以上、たえず読み返してきた「座右の書」であり「最高の基本書」であり「伝説の学習参考書」。

New York Times bestselling author Neal Bascomb delivers a taut and timely forgotten history—equal parts Peaky Blinders and The Departed—of the Molly Maguires, the Irish secret society that terrorized Gilded Age America, and the young immigrant detective who went undercover, alone, to bring...

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV, ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in 17th-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis' accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.

On 1 August 1714 George I was proclaimed king, bringing Britain and his native Hanover into personal union and founding the dynasty that has ruled Britain ever since. It marked the beginning of a close yet fraught relationship that would shape the destiny of both Britain and Germany, with...

Though extremely different men in most ways, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Third Reich Fuhrer Adolf Hitler shared a passion for science, technology, and (sometimes impractical) "wonder weapons." In some cases, this fixation paid off handsomely, as in the case of British centrimetric radar, a compact, powerful radar type that enabled fitment to individual aircraft and contributed to the defeat of German U-boats.

The 20th century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. In Streetlife, Leif Jerram presents a totally new history of the 20th century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about the century, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was fundamentally shaped by the great urban centres which defined it.

Imagine a time when Europe lay shrouded in tyranny—cities crumbled, millions displaced, and freedom silenced under Nazi rule. Yet from 1944 to 1945, a decisive series of Allied campaigns shattered the iron grip of oppression. The Final Push: How Europe Was Liberated! tells the story of that transformative moment—when ordinary people and extraordinary leaders joined across continents to bring an end to Hitler’s tyranny and restore freedom to a broken world.

The Third Reich is rising. The creeping madness in the heart of Germany will soon stain the entire world. This is the chilling account of one family as they flee for their lives. Written by a second generation Holocaust survivor, this compelling, heart-wrenching story will touch every emotion.

“Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…” With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that...

A gloriously moving and entertaining, picaresque debut novel about a young man’s sentimental education in late 19th-century Europe; inspired by a real historical figure: ‘Captain’ Paul Boyton - the ‘Fearless Frogman’. 

George Mergenthaler, the grandson of the inventor of the Linotype, was an only child, and at the time of his birth in 1920, became the sole male heir the family fortune. Tall, handsome, Ivy League educated, speaking fluent German and French, "Merg" as he was know to his friends, did what many in his generation did following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: He enlisted in the Army.

Burning pyres, nuns on the run, stirring courage, and comic relief: the Protestant Reformation is a gripping tale, packed with drama. But what motivated the Reformers? And what were they really like? The Unquenchable Flame, a lively, accessible, and fully informative introduction to the Reformation by Michael Reeves, brings to life the movement's most colorful characters (Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, The Puritans, etc.), examines their ideas, and shows the profound and personal relevance of Reformation thinking for today.

Può sembrare curioso, ma attorno al vino ruota una gran parte dell'identità di Greci e Romani: miti, regole di galateo, codici di comportamento, visioni etiche e filosofiche, religione e molto altro ancora. Con il vino gli eroi di Omero pregano, danno ospitalità e siglano accordi; nella Grecia classica il vino è l'imprescindibile fulcro attorno al quale ruota il simposio, quella 'bevuta collettiva' in cui si rafforzano i vincoli d'amicizia, si intrecciano discorsi, si corteggiano ragazzi e cortigiane.