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  • Absolute Destruction

    Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

    In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures ... Leer más

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  • A Scrap of Paper

    Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War

    In A Scrap of Paper**, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war.**Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory ... Leer más

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    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

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    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million ... Leer más

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  • The Swiss and the Nazis

    How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses "a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught" ( Daly History Blog).While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath.This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices ... Leer más

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  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edición de Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Leer más

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  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Leer más

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  • Backing Hitler:Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

    The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of ... Leer más

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  • The SS Dirlewanger Brigade

    The History of the Black Hunters

    Traducido por Phoebe Green ...
    The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon ... Leer más

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  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    Traducido por Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Leer más

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  • Soldiers

    German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying

    Traducido por Jefferson Chase ...
    On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sönke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of covertly recorded, meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs during World War II that recently had been declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C.These discoveries, published in book ... Leer más

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  • Endkampf

    Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich

    "This thoroughly researched and superbly written study" examines the final days of WWII combat within Germany during the occupation of Franconia ( WWII History).At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower turned US forces toward the Franconian region of Germany, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units before they could escape into the Alps. Opposing this advance were German ... Leer más

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  • Target Switzerland

    Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II

    A comprehensive history of Switzerland's neutral, yet vital role, in resisting Nazi Germany during World War II.Countless books have been written on the military history of World War II, however astonishingly little information has appeared about the one country that stared the Nazis down and refused to become an accomplice to the horrors of the Third Reich. Target Switzerland provides an ... Leer más

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