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Operation Albion
In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a half-dozen zeppelins, and 80 aircraft, attacked the Baltic islands of Dago, Osel, and Moon at the head of the Gulf of Riga. It proved to be the most successful amphibious operation of World War I. The three islands fell, the Gulf was opened to German warships and was now a threat to Russian naval bases in the Gulf of Finland, and 20,000 Russians were captured. The invasion proved to be the last major operation in the East. Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.
Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
Young Wilhelm
John C. G. Röhl's acclaimed life of Kaiser Wilhelm II, from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the throne in 1888.
Lotosblüte
Ein bisher unbekanntes Werk des Meisters Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mischt die Gemeinde auf. Begehrlichkeiten werden geweckt. Dollarzeichen blitzen in gierigen Augen. Der kommunale Kultur- und Verschönerungsbetrieb springt an. Eine kesse polnische Hausangestellte und ein irischer Setter geraten ebenso ins Getümmel wie der Kieler Antiquar Eschenburg. Und alles spielt natürlich wieder an vertrauten Orten auf bekannten Straßen.
Reisekultur in Deutschland
Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes untersuchen das Reisen und die Reiseliteratur in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1945 im engen Zusammenhang mit den allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei zunächst die Aspekte einer 'Modernisierung' des Reisens, wie sie am Ausbau des Tourismus und der Verkehrsmittel abzulesen ist. Weitere Beiträge erschließen die Reiseliteratur dieser Jahrzehnte. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Reiseliteraturgeschichte des "Dritten Reiches", die bisher noch kaum erforscht wurde.
Schleswig-Holstein
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World War I [5 volumes]
Offering exhaustive coverage, detailed analyses, and the latest historical interpretations of events, this expansive, five-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and detailed reference source on the First World War available today. One hundred years after the beginning of World War I in 1914, this conflict still stands as perhaps the most important event of the 20th century. World War I toppled all of the existing empires at the time, transformed the Middle East, and vaulted the United States to becoming the world's leading economic power. Its effects were profound and lasting—and included outcomes that led to World War II. This multivolume encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging exami...
The 'Sailor Prince' in the Age of Empire
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of the remarkable revival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe through a new prism: the public persona of the ‘Sailor Prince’. It highlights how four usually overlooked dynastic figures – the younger sons and brothers of monarchs such as Queen Victoria or Emperor William II – decisively helped to advertise their respective dynasties in the fiercely contested political and popular mass market, by aligning them with one of the most myth-invested cultural presences and power-political symbols of the Age of Empire: the navy. The 'Sailor Prince' in the Age of Empire traces the unusual professional careers, the adventurous empire travels and t...
