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Yugoslavia experienced the terror of the Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber from the first days of war in April 1941, to the end in 1945. The complete story is presented in this new book that includes operational history, first-hand accounts, and rare wartime images of Stuka operations against Partisans. German and Italian Stukas contributed to the Axis powers' quick defeat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and after the job was done, the dive-bombers left for the Eastern Front. But with growing antifascist r...

Hitler's 'National Community' provides a new and updated examination of German society under the Nazis, analyzing and synthesizing a generation of scholarship to offer new insight into the key debates surrounding the subject. Beginning with a focus on Nazi attempts to forge a new national identity and awareness, the book goes on to consider the role and fate of all those excluded from this new national community. Author Lisa Pine interweaves her analysis of society with a consideration of cultur...

Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the emerging field of Sound Studies. German soundscapes present a particularly fertile field for investigation and understanding, Feiereisen and Hill argue, due to such unique factors in Germany's history as its early and especially cacophonous industrialization, the sheer loudness of its wars, and the po...

The Secret Projects of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II gives a comprehensive overview of advanced German naval building, and excitingly includes previously unseen, secret projects. This book is relatively short, yet densely packed with historical naval insight. It will thus appeal to the busy reader interested in boat modelling, or indeed anyone who is fascinated with naval warfare. The designs covered by the title are wide-ranging, from U-boats and hydrofoils, to submarines, explosive m...

Nach grossen Erfolgen im Pressegeschaft profilierte sich der Ullstein Verlag ab 1903 in strategisch geschickter Mehrfachverwertung seiner Produkte auch mit einem facettenreichen literarischen Unterhaltungsprogramm und popularen Sachbuchern. Der Band betrachtet aus interdisziplinarer Perspektive die inhaltliche, programmatische und mediale Vielfalt des Verlags im Kontext kultureller, gesellschaftlicher und medialer Rahmenbedingungen der Zeit.

An essential critical history of German studies as an academic discipline. German studies has confronted many crises, as well as severe criticism and self-criticism, and yet it has managed to maintain its disciplinary system through every upheaval--the revolution of 1848, the establishment of the Second Reich in 1871, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Third Reich, the Second World War and the reconstruction era, the creation and reunification of the two German states. Pier Carlo Bontempelli focuses...

Dieses umfassende Lexikon behandelt den geographischen Raum Mitteleuropa (Deutschland, OEsterreich, Schweiz) und ist als Nachschlagewerk und Hilfsmittel zum Studium der Spataufklarung, Franzoesischen Revolution, Restauration, des Vormarz und der Revolution von 1848/49 konzipiert. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt auf den fast oder ganz vergessenen, von der bisherigen Geschichtsschreibung haufig ubersehenen Demokraten und Liberalen, die politisch hervorgetreten sind und dem Rechts- und Verfassungs...

This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. Brian Ladd sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment. In so doing, he reveals the extent to which...