Biography: historical, political and military

Many a book has been written about the Medici; yet how little has been said about the private lives of the founders of that wonderful family which rose from prosperous middle-class condition to take its place among the sovereign houses of Europe, to seat its daughters on the throne of the Queen-consorts of France, and its sons on the Chair of St.

An era has ended.

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.

Peter Mittler was born in Vienna in April 1930 and witnessed the Anschluss in 1938 when life changed overnight for Jews.

Ernest Hirsch was born in April 1925 in Neidenburg, East Prussia.

Marianne Phillips was born in 1924 in Berlin.

Das Petzvalobjektiv, entwickelt im 19.

Theodor v.

Herodes der Große – eine der schillerndsten und zugleich umstrittensten Figuren der An-tike.

Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.

Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe.