Titoli in Germania

Bloomsbury presents The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw, read by Thomas Judd. ‘The best short introduction to the study of Hitler’s Germany.’ - European History Quarterly The 40th-anniversary edition of Sir Ian Kershaw’s ground-breaking study...

Wie denken Autokraten? Wie kommt das Böse in die Welt? Wiederholt sich Geschichte, und wenn ja, wie? In diesem Buch spürt der Enkel des NS-Außenministers Joachim von Ribbentrop den zeitlosen Wechselwirkungen nach, die das Denken und Wirken von Individuen, aber auch von Gruppen, Gesellschaften...

Was sagt uns eine Schädelkalotte über kannibalistische Umtriebe und die Ängste von Steinzeitmenschen? Und was hat ein unscheinbares Trinkglas mit Hinrichtungen und der Medizin im Spätmittelalter zu tun? Von diesen und anderen Mysterien erzählt uns der Wissenschaftsredakteur und SPIEGEL-Autor Guido Kleinhubbert in seinem Hörbuch. Darin rekonstruiert er die deutsche Geschichte von der Steinzeit bis heute auf der Grundlage von bisher wenig beachteten archäologischen Entdeckungen und historischen Objekten.

Erinnerungskultur, aber anders Unsere Erinnerungskultur muss sich verändern. Wie und warum, legt Susanne Siegert in diesem Hörbuch dar. Sie plädiert für eine pluralistische, neue Gedenkarbeit mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Verantwortung der Nachfahren der Tätergeneration anstelle unserer...

Kaum sind die Trümmer weggeräumt, setzt in Deutschland ein Wirtschaftsaufschwung ohnegleichen ein, auch ein nimmersatter Kaufrausch: Möbel, Autos, Reisen, Elektrogeräte. Mit dem Rock 'n' Roll erfasst die Jugend ein neues Lebensgefühl. 1957 eröffnet der erste Supermarkt, der Siegeszug der Discounter beginnt. Der Fernseher gruppiert die Wohnzimmer um. – Und plötzlich stellen sich neue Fragen: Wie soll man leben? Verlieren wir unsere kulturelle Identität an Amerika? Wie viel Freiheit braucht ein Kind, eine Ehe, ein Arbeitnehmer?

N°1 des ventes dès sa sortie aux États-Unis, le nouveau chef-d'œuvre de l'auteur du Diable dans la Ville Blanche. " Un écrivain exceptionnel. " The New York Times " Un livre remarquable et captivant. Il mérite vraiment d'être lu par le plus grand nombre. " The Washington Post Après Le...

A Times Book of the Year 'A superb work of history' JAMES HOLLAND 'A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history' DAN SNOW A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves. Winston Churchill famously remarked that...

Bloomsbury Presents Defenders of the Reich by Robert Forsyth, read by Laurence Dobiesz. The story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm’s desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II. The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die campaign...

Bloomsbury presents The Hitler Years by Frank McDonough, read by Paul McGann. Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series. The penultimate title in the Hitler's Germany series, the book marks the end...

Bloomsbury presents Rhineland: Hitler's Last Defence, 1944-45 by Anthony Tucker-Jones, read by Richard Trinder. A dramatic retelling of the desperate battle of the Rhineland during World War II from the German perspective. The Rhineland was where Adolf Hitler sowed the seeds for the Second World...

A thrilling, vivid, and “compelling” (Wall Street Journal) account of the epic siege during one of World War II’s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to...

Named a Best History Book of 2019 by The Times (UK) The astounding true story of how thousands of ordinary Germans, overcome by shame, guilt, and fear, killed themselves after the fall of the Third Reich and the end of World War II. By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen...

“[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be.” —The New Yorker “Riveting…we can never be reminded too often to never forget.” —The Wall Street Journal Journalist...

In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as...

The perfect introduction to the Master. Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten...

The never-before-told tale of the German-American who infiltrated New York’s Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II: “Thrilling, well-researched, well-told, fascinating” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). He was the first hero of World War II and yet the American public has never...

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror. This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to assistant signalman. But he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women.

From the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim’s secret life in Egypt comes the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a...

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Leibniz in just one hour. Leibniz was the first great German philosopher to produce an all-embracing philosophical system. He came to the remarkable conclusion that space and time do not exist – they are mere...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war...