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A biography of one of the most influential scientists in the twentieth century.
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
This is the first book to describe Arturo Toscanini's activities - the life he led, his concerts and recording sessions - during his visits to London and elsewhere in Britain in the years 1900-1952. During the 1930s Arturo Toscanini conducted many concerts broadcast by the BBC from London's Queen's Hall, where he also made some unsurpassed recordings. Drawing on newly researched material in British and American archives, Christopher Dyment reveals how the most renowned and influential conductor of the twentieth century, notoriously microphone-shy though he was, came to conduct so frequently in London, a tale replete with unexpected twists, turns and ingenious stratagems. Toscanini's dominati...
During WWII, US Military Intelligence secretly recorded thousands of conversations between ordinary German soldiers held in a US interrogation camp. These recordings shed light on the Wehrmacht and its soldiers - their attitudes about Hitler and National Socialism, their wartime experiences, and their participation in war crimes and the Holocaust.
Groundbreaking history of a rarely covered German unit. Numerous eyewitness reports from members of the division. Detailed maps to illustrate the division's actions.