10,280円 From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania...

1,550円 Johann August Sack schlug ab 1785 die Verwaltungslaufbahn ein und arbeitete als Auskultator bei der Regierung in Kleve. Hier beschäftigte er sich vor allem mit dem Berg- und Hüttenwesen. 1788 wurde er zum Bergrat und Bergrichter in Wetter ernannt. Als Justiziar der Kriegs- und Domänenkammer in Kl...

10,280円 The incorporation of German territories east of the Oder and Western Neisse rivers into Poland in 1945 was linked with the difficult process of an almost total exchange of population and involved the taking over of a region in which the Second World War had effected an enormous level of destructi...

1,858円 In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vien...

1,990円 The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of ...

1,592円 When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that ...

1,592円 A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obs...

2,255円 From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German a...

1,990円 **The brutal and tragic story of the First World War’s oft-overlooked Italian Front “A fascinating, indeed brilliant, portrait of a society immolated by its own delusions.” ーMax Hastings, New York Review of Books Named a Book of the Year by Economist • Sunday Times • Sunday Telegraph • Observer ...

2,388円 "The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." -- Winston S. Churchill In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of...

1,200円 Was hat die Wiener Innenstadt nicht schon alles erlebt? Wenn Sie jemals mit offenen Augen durch die Straßen des 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirks geschlendert sind und sich diese Frage gestellt haben, bekommen Sie hier die Antwort.Autorin Brigitte M. Rainer führt Sie von der Akademiestraße bis in die Zed...

1,550円 So many heroes have been lost to history and this book attempts to bring the reader's attention to two great men who by working in harmony were able to transform the fate of Prussia. Gertha von Dieckmann originally wrote this book in German in 1930. Today, the book contains so many intimate insig...