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“bernhard menne”

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  • Blood and Steel - The Rise of the House of Krupp

    by Bernhard Menne ...
    The Krupp family are a prominent German dynasty from Essen and are famous for their steel production and the manufacture of ammunitions and armaments. This book provides the first genuine critical history of the company whose guns made the background for a half-century of mad armament policy, made possible by Krupp's new patron, Adolf Hitler. The House of Krupp's true history had been concealed by ... Read more

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  • The Gathering Storm

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    "It is our immense good fortune that a man who presided over this crisis in history is able to turn the action he lived through into enduring literature." — The New York TimesThis book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Money Dies

    The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

    by Adam Fergusson ...
    **The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“**brilliant” (Guardian)In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for ... Read more

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  • Triumph and Tragedy

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 6 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history.In Triumph and Tragedy, British prime minister Winston Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation.Beginning with the invasion of ... Read more

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  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road to 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

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  • Bismarck

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • 1914: The Year the World Ended

    by Paul Ham ...
    Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the longer run, the events of 1914 set ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Eastern Front 1914-1917

    by Norman Stone ...
    'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II

    Germany's Last Emperor

    by John van der Kiste ...
    Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman. ... Read more

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  • The German Empire

    A Short History

    by Michael Sturmer ...
    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The First World War

    Volume I: To Arms

    by Hew Strachan ...
    This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 5: The Concentration Camps

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the fifth volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany. Taken from the original court transcript this volume covers the proceedings from 21st January to 1st February 1946 and represents an essential primary source for scholars and general readers alike. The transcripts ... Read more

    $2.99 USD