Michael Wittmann: Panzerass aus der OberpfalzVom Bauernhof zur Legende des Panzerkriegs und zuruck in die harte WirklichkeitMichael Wittmann (1914 1944) gilt bis heute als der erfolgreichste deutsche Panzerkommandant des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
KlappentextPaul von Lettow-VorbeckDer Lowe von AfrikaEr war der preu ische Offizier, der mit einer Handvoll Soldaten und afrikanischen Askaris ein ganzes Weltreich in Atem hielt.
Dieses Werk untersucht, wie der Widerhall individueller Schicksale in der Mythenbildung fortbesteht, und zeichnet die Resonanz hinter historischen Zasuren nach.
From the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Germany, the European Theater of World War II produced acts of individual courage so extreme that they strain the ordinary vocabulary of war.
Der Autor, ein Dermatologe im Ruhestand, hat nach seiner beruflichen Tatigkeit Lebenserinnerungen verfasst und unter dem Titel "e;Atmen"e; in zwei Banden veroffentlicht.
There is a particular kind of knowledge that only combat produces - the knowledge of what a human being is capable of when everything has collapsed, when orders are meaningless, when the enemy is thirty meters away and closing, and when the only thing standing between the living and the dead is a single decision made in a fraction of a second.
In the pre-dawn hours of September 4, 1967, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines was on foot patrol in the Que Son Valley when the darkness erupted.
The sea has always been the most unforgiving stage for human ambition, incompetence, and courage - and the doomed voyage its most enduring narrative form.
By the spring of 1944, British intelligence had achieved something without precedent in the history of warfare: it controlled every single German spy operating in the United Kingdom.
Events from the beginning of the presidential campaign of 1916 to the entry of the United States into the First World War are covered in this fifth volume of Professor Link's authoritative biography of Woodrow Wilson.
"e;The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880, Volume II"e; opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent.
Donald Cole analyzes the political skills that brought Van Buren the nickname Little Magician,"e; describing how he built the Albany Regency (which became a model for political party machines) and how he created the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson.
Volume Six of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 516 documents from 11 March to 27 November 1813.
El gallego relata la vida de un joven militante desde sus primeros anos en el barrio de Palermo hasta su etapa obrera en Dock Sud, donde la memoria familiar, la militancia y la muerte se entrelazan en un mismo hilo narrativo.
This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and close friend, Stockton Axson.
The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression.
Sir Walter Raleigh was truly the Renaissance man of Elizabethan England: soldier and diplomat serving in the wars between Spain and England, courtier and Captain of the Queen's Guard in Elizabeth's flamboyant court, explorer of a New World and colonizer of Virginia, member of Parliament and devotee of science, musician and literary patron, historian and poet.
This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the United States.
