German Nation

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined. 

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years? In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials - personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence - to answer this question. He offers an unprecedented portrait of wartime Germany, bringing the hopes and expectations of the German people to vivid life.

Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history, a trial that continues to haunt the modern world. With his customary authority and audacity, William F. Buckley, Jr., has taken a pivotal moment in history and shaped it into a novel of riveting insight...

Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.

Martin Luther, full of compassion, grief, disappointment, and frustration, turns away from his entreaties to and debates with church leaders and writes instead to the German political leaders. With extreme clarity, Luther explains in this letter the unbalanced nature and habits of the religious...

Bloomsbury presents The Franco-Prussian War by Stephen Badsey, read by Ric Jerrom. This is an introduction to the Franco-Prussian War, a war that marked the beginning of the creation of modern Europe. The Franco-Prussian War started in 1870 when Otto von Bismarck engineered a war with the French...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the...

A compelling joint biography of Churchill and de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown together by the challenges of war. They incarnated the resistance of Britain and France to the existential threat...

An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler...

The persistent myth of German efficiency and discipline stands as one of modern history's most enduring and consequential national stereotypes, a carefully constructed narrative that has shaped international relations, economic policies, and cultural understanding for over two centuries. This work aims to systematically deconstruct this mythology through rigorous historical analysis, economic data, and sociological research, revealing how this narrative served multiple purposes: masking internal dysfunction, justifying economic exploitation, and creating a national identity built more on ...

The complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the Nazi occupation during World War II. “Faced with the political disaster, I had to become France.” This was how Charles de Gaulle answered the call of history. One of the few...

Offering a history of the Germany that Bavaria made over the twentieth century, A Nation Fermented both eschews sharp temporal divisions and forgoes conventional narratives centered on Prussia, Berlin, or the Rhineland. In so doing, Terrell offers a fresh take on the importance of provincial influences and the role of commodities and commerce in shaping the nation.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Explained: The Self, Freedom, German Idealism, and Nationalism in Modern Philosophy introduces a philosopher who helped redefine what the self is and what freedom demands. Fichte wrote at a crucial moment after Kant, when philosophers were trying to explain how thought, action, and reality fit together. This book focuses on the ideas that made him decisive for later debates: the self as an active power rather than a passive spectator, freedom as a task rather than a mere possession, and philosophy as a disciplined attempt to show how knowledge and responsibility arise...

Frankreich mon amour Jean-Marie Magro ist Münchner, Provençale und vor allem rasender Reporter: Mit dem Rennrad hat er Frankreich erkundet, auf einer realen Tour de France: von Paris aus zu den Schtis, vom Mont-Saint-Michel über Cognac und Bordeaux ins friedvolle Baskenland. Von den Pyrenäen...

Er war Kaiser, Feldherr und Kreuzritter mit dem Sendungsbewusstsein römischer Caesaren...

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in discourses on nationalism and imperialism.

An expert legal review of the US government’s response to epidemics through history—with larger conclusions about COVID-19, and reforms needed for the next plague In this narrative history of the US through major outbreaks of contagious disease, from yellow fever to the Spanish flu, from...

Diese fesselnde Kulturgeschichte entfaltet das dramatische Ringen zwischen indigenem Widerstand und kolonialer Macht. Fernab linearer Erzählungen eröffnet sich ein tiefgründiges Hör-Erlebnis, das dir auf dem täglichen Pendelweg oder beim aufmerksamen Zuhören die wahren sozialen Kämpfe...

Regimen Books Christian Classics publishes high-quality texts of important books. Each includes an informative, insightful introduction written today by an expert. / Martin Luther Luther wrote To the Christian Nobility in 1520 to rouse Germany’s princes to reform the Church. The first 4,000 copies sold out in just two weeks. “In this treatise we meet Luther the German. His heart is full of grief for the affliction of his people.... [The book] is of absorbing interest and priceless historical value.” Luther argued that the Roman Catholic Church was corrupt, and he contended that, since...

At two a.m. a young man appears in the Geneva city center with symptoms of poisoning. Soon afterward he dies in the hospital, and days later a pharmacist is fatally poisoned as well. Suspicion falls on a prominent professor who enjoys great local esteem, but is addicted to morphine and was in close contact with the victims. Simpson O'Key, a British secret agent posing as a journalist, involves himself in the city's police investigation. He soon learns that a maharaja from an Indian border province is in Geneva, the League of Nations' headquarters, to sell his country's oil resources-- a ...