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History for busy people. Hitler in an Hour is the concise biography of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.Covering Hitler’s early life, military service in World War I and eventual rise to power, first as the leader of the Nazi party and then to head of state, Hitler in an Hour covers all the key events the life of the 20th century’s most infamous dictator.

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power.

Lange Zeit galt es als ausgemacht, dass das deutsche Kaiserreich wegen seiner Großmachtträume die Hauptverantwortung am Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs trug. In seinem bahnbrechenden neuen Werk kommt der renommierte Historiker und Bestsellerautor Christopher Clark (Preußen) zu einer anderen Einschätzung.

In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler’s alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler’s actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown.

The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission, should hostilities commence, was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city.

From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.

May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue 14 prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It's a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer and his men, who voluntarily join the fight.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1914 the world changed. Europe's great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought - fought with military bands, horsemen, and swift victories.

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, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were first persecuted and then murdered. How, both morally and logistically, had this came to happen?

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by - warfare in the modern age, that struggled to capitalize on its victories, and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat.

In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years.

Angela Merkel è indubbiamente il simbolo della Germania del nuovo millennio. Una passione per la politica, una carriera duratura con alti e bassi, scelte difficili e grandi doti di leadership. In questo breve viaggio nella vita politica di Angela Merkel seguiremo la sua carriera nel partito e alla guida di uno degli Stati chiave della nuova Unione Europea. Alla vigilia delle elezioni in Germania, previste per l'autunno del 2017, la Merkel si trova forse nel momento più delicato della propria carriera, con un’economia nazionale per la prima volta in recessione dopo anni, e con il rischio di vedere sfaldata la complessa trama di relazioni e dipendenze intessuta fino ad ora dalla sua cancelleria.

Cronache dal Muro 7. E l'ascolto: Cronache del muro/7. Berlino, il crepuscolo del potere, di Ezio Mauro; Ascoltare è meglio che leggere, di Luigi Manconi.

Eva Braun era una giovane donna di Monaco che proveniva da una famiglia borghese come molte altre. L'incontro con Adolf Hitler, l'uomo più potente della Germania nazista, condizionò la sua esistenza e tutte e sue scelte. Eva nutrì per il Fuhrer un amore incondizionato, nonostante lui la tenesse lontana da Berlino e dalla sua vita politica e si rifiutasse di prenderla in moglie o anche solo di mostrarsi pubblicamente insieme a lei.

Blitzkrieg, “Guerra Lampo”: è lo strumento militare vincente che Adolf Hitler utilizzò come strumento di espansione e conquista del Terzo Reich. Con la Blitzkrieg il Fuhrer si impadronì letteralmente in un lampo di gran parte dell’Europa: dall’Austria alla Cecoslovacchia, dalla Polonia alla Francia, nel 1940 l’avanzata del Terzo Reich sembrava inarrestabile.

Fin dalla loro fondazione, le Schutzstaffeln (SS), l’unità paramilitare del Partito Nazista, create da Adolf Hitler nel 1925, assunsero risvolti inquietanti. Ben presto divennero, soprattutto grazie all’azione di Heinrich Himmler e del suo braccio destro Reinhard Heydrich, sinonimo di terrore, violenza, efferatezza e morte. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale le SS si trasformarono in una forza letale, macchiandosi di numerosi crimini di guerra e diventarono la macchina organizzatrice e sterminatrice della brutale Soluzione Finale dei campi di concentramento.

Gli eventi che portarono Adolf Hitler al potere furono il frutto di un contesto storico preciso e di una concatenazione di errori, emergenze e sottovalutazioni. Li scoprirete in questo primo volume della “Breve storia del Terzo Reich” insieme al racconto della storia del popolo tedesco dalle origini fino alla crisi della Repubblica di Weimar e all’avvento e all’affermazione del Terzo Reich. Inoltre, ogni volume contiene le “Appendici alla Breve Storia del Terzo Reich”: documenti ufficiali del Terzo Reich o testi e testimonianze originali e autentiche dell’epoca storica dominata da Adolf Hitler.

Negli ultimi cinquant'anni gli storici hanno analizzato ogni dettaglio della vita di Adolf Hitler e del regime nazista...

Während seines langen Lebens erlebte Fritz Stern, wie sich Deutschland veränderte: Von der Weimarer Republik zum "Dritten Reich", dann Bundesrepublik und DDR und schließlich das wiedervereinigte Deutschland nach 1989. Als einer der bedeutendsten Historiker des 20. Jahrhunderts verbindet er gekonnt die eigene Erinnerung als jüdischer Emigrant mit der Geschichtsschreibung, wobei immer die "deutsche Frage" im Fokus bleibt. Das Hörbuch wird ergänzt durch Interviews mit und Reden von dem Autoren, die im NDR erschienen sind.

Der Fall des eisernen Vorhangs kam für eine Handvoll Menschen kaum überraschend: Hinter den Kulissen der Regierung der DDR wusste man bereits 1986, dass der Zusammenbruch des Staates in spätestens vier Jahren erfolgen würde - eine Lösung der deutschen Frage wurde immer dringlicher. 1988 wurde Kohl der erste Vorschlag zur Ost-West-Annährung durch atomare Abrüstung gemacht, doch dieser ignorierte den Vorstoß. Stattdessen begannen nun geheime Treffen zum Thema Maueröffnung direkt hinter dem Todesstreifen, und diese fanden bis zum Fall der Mauer statt. In diesem spannenden Sachbuch richtet Ferdinand Kroh den Scheinwerfer hinter die Kulissen der DDR und ihrer politischen Machenschaften.