Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “edgar feuchtwanger”
Skip side bar filters

  • Hitler, My Neighbor

    Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939

    by Edgar Feuchtwanger, Bertil Scali ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bismarck

    A Political History

    by Edgar Feuchtwanger ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure. He traces his development from a typical Junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white revolutionary who recast European affairs more drastically than anyone since Napoleon. This second ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Imperial Germany 1850-1918

    by Edgar Feuchtwanger ...
    Imperial Germany focuses on the domestic political developments of the period, putting them into context through a balanced guide to the economic and social background, culture and foreign policy.This important study explores the tensions caused within an empire which was formed through war, against the prevailing liberal spirit of the age and poses many questions among them:* Was the desire to ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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 Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler

    by Sebastian Haffner ...
    The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Jean Steinberg; 57,000 words)Using his skills as a journalist, historian, and memoirist, Sebastian Haffner (author of The Meaning of Hitler) traces the development of the German Empire (1871-1945) and the central role of warfare that characterized the Reich. Haffner contends that Germany’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A People's History of the Russian Revolution

    by Neil Faulkner ...
    Series series People's History
    The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action and destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers.Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin and the ... Read more

    Free

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Perfidious Distortion of History

    the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis

    by Jürgen Tampke ...
    A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II.The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a positive reputation since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom has it that the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Europe 1880-1945

    by J.M. Roberts ...
    Series series General History of Europe
    Suitable for 19th and 20th century Europe/modern Europe undergraduate courses.This well-established and immensely successful book provides a standard introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most popular historians. Social, economic and social history are skillfully integrated within a framework of political narrative history. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany

    1806-1871

    by John Breuilly ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century Austria was the dominant power in the region. Prussian-led unification was highly unlikely up until the 1860s and even then was only possible because ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Aspects of European History 1789-1980

    by Stephen J. Lee ...
    In this sequel to his popular Aspects of European History, 1494 - 1789, Stephen J. Lee charts the most commonly encountered topics of nineteenth and twentieth century history, from the origins of the French Revolution, through the social and political reforms and upheavals of the last two centuries to the present.Helpful and accessible, the book includes:* an invigorating guide and sound source of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Bismarck and Germany

    1862-1890

    by David G. Williamson ...
    Series series Seminar Studies In History
    Bismarck’s role in the unification and consolidation of Germany is central to any understanding of Germany's development as a nation and its consequent role as aggressor in two world wars.This study provides students with a concise, up-to-date and analytical account of Bismarck's role in modern German history. Williamson guides readers through the complex events leading to the defeats of Austria ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Shaping of Grand Strategy

    Policy, Diplomacy, and War

    Edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey ...
    Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more ... Read more

    $26.99 USD