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The Russians in Germany
In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany from 1945 through 1949. His book offers a comprehensive look at Soviet policies in the occupied zone and their practical consequences for Germans and Russians alike--and, ultimately, for postwar Europe. In rich and lucid detail, Naimark captures the mood and the daily reality of the occupation, the chaos and contradictions of a period marked by...
Military Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict
The Vietnam War was, in the words of a preeminent scholar of the conflict (George C. Herring), "America's longest war." The Indochina conflict spanned the first generation of the larger Cold War and lasts to this day in American memory and cultural representation. Although the war remains a sensitive subject for many, a consensus exists that would echo the words of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in his memoir, In Retrospect, "We were wrong, we were terribly wrong." The six volumes in this series pull together the best article literature on the History of American Involvement in Vietnam. The scholars writing in the first volume explore the roots of U.S. intervention, which fol...
Final Wicket
While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today. When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.
Securing the Narrow Sea
The Dover Patrol, which brought together an assortment of vessels ranging from the modern to the antique and included cruisers, monitors, destroyers, trawlers, drifters, yachts and airships, was commanded by a series of radical and polarizing personalities and increasingly manned by citizen volunteers. Between 1914 and 1918 the men of the Patrol sought to shut down German access to the Atlantic via the narrows of the English Channel, with the goal of preventing German bound trade going in and U-boats, commerce raiders and warships going out. Their story has rarely been told, but it was the longest, and probably the most arduous, continuous naval campaign of the war, demanding much sacrifice ...
The American Experience in Vietnam
Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over the war
Nazis and Nobles
The first ever in-depth study of the role played by the nobility in the Nazi rise to power in interwar Germany, this is a fascinating portrait of an aristocratic world teetering on the edge of self-destruction.
The Work of Memory
Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity. Tracing the role of memory in German history between the Reformation and reunification, contributors show how memory has a history and the presence of the past has historical context. With scholarly zeal and keen insight, these essays draw on ghost stories and the postwar fiction of Heinrich Böll, among other memory sites, escorting the reader through the streets of Alt Hildesheim and ...
Freemasonry in Context
In Freemasonry in Context: History, Ritual, Controversy editors Arturo de Hoyos and S. Brent Morris feature work by renown Masonic scholars. Essays explore the rich and often times controversial events that comprise the cultural and social history of Freemasonry.
Kirche in revolutionärer Zeit
Fokussiert auf die Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein widmet sich die hier vorgelegte Arbeit nicht nur der kirchen- und theologiegeschichtlichen, sondern auch der allgemein-historischen Forschung im Kontext der postrevolutionären Phase nach 1789 über den Vormärz bis zu den 1848er Ereignissen und deren Folgen. Der Blick richtet sich sowohl auf die übergeordneten politik-, verfassungs-, wirtschafts-, sozial- und kirchengeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge wie auch auf eine Vielzahl bislang überhaupt nicht oder kaum ausgewerteter Quellen. Dabei dient die Betrachtung vormärzlicher journalistischer Theoriebildung der kirchengeschichtlichen Darstellung einer von außerhalb ihrer selbst betrachteten Kirche. In der Darstellung von Makrohistorie und ausdifferenzierter Interpretation von Quellenmaterial präsentiert die Untersuchung einen längst überfälligen Baustein zum weiteren Verständnis eines wesentlichen und anregenden Forschungsgebietes.
Vom König zum Führer
Die erste umfassende Analyse des Niedergangs der jahrhundertealten Herrschaftselite des deutschen Adels. Die Selbstzerstörung adliger Traditionen und Werte, die im Kaiserreich mit der Annäherung an rechtsradikale Bewegungen beginnt, kulminiert in der widersprüchlichen Mitwirkung in der NS-Bewegung. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Hans-Rosenberg-Preis 2004. Über die immense Bedeutung des deutschen Adels weit über das Jahr 1918 hinaus herrscht in der Literatur Einigkeit. Kurioserweise ist jedoch über den Adel des 20. Jahrhunderts bisher sehr viel behauptet und sehr wenig geforscht worden. Dieses Buch erregte gleich nach Erscheinen großes Aufsehen und wurde innerhalb eines halben Jahres zweimal na...
