disobeying hitler randall hansen

A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse Globe and Mail Excellent Evening Standard | Fascinating Ben MacintyreRaze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry.These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of the Second World War, as the Allies made their unstoppable advance on Germany.Had it not been for the determination and bravery of a few Germans â “ officers and ordinary civilians â “ who disobeyed Hiter, Europe might have been a scorched ruin. Many paid with their lives.Might Rommel have opened the Western Front to the Allies on 20 July 1944 had he not been shot at a few days earlier? Did Albert Speer single-handedly prevent the destruction of bridges, factories and towns? Did a Prussian general save Paris?In this compelling book, distinguished historian Randall Hansen explores the extraordinary phenomenon of disobedience-as-resistance and its effect on both the war and its aftermath.A gripping account of German resistance to Hitlerâ ™s tyranny in the last year of World War Two, in its 80th anniversary year.

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Ez a Fritz Hansen tervezésű pléd 190x120 cm méretben készül, 80% kasmír és 20% merino gyapjú keverékéből. A hosszabb, bolyhos szálak kiváló hőszigetelést és kényelmet biztosítanak. A termék fenntartható anyagokból készül, és természetes barna színben kapható.

• Prémium kasmír és merino gyapjú keverék a legjobb minőségben
• Nagy, 190x120 cm-es méret tökéletes kényelemre és melegre
• Fenntarthatóan előállított anyagok környezettudatos gyártással
• Exkluzív Fritz Hansen design elegáns és letisztult megjelenéssel

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A BASKET házilap állvány 53 cm magas, barna színű, fából készült. Méretei 53 x 36,5 x 37 cm, anyaga lakkozott juharfa furnér és gőzrel hajlított juharfa. Benjamin Hubert tervezte.

• A hagyományos házilap állványok kiváló alternatívája.
• Egyedi lakberendezési kiegészítő, amely vizuális élményt nyújt.
• A Fritz Hansen hagyományait követve készült, gőzrel hajlított fával és finom furnérral.
• Könnyen szállítható.

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A Night Owl asztali lámpa Fritz Hansen márkától, füstfehér színben, 24 cm magas. Lakált alumíniumból készült, aszimmetrikus ernyővel és kúpos alappal. E27-es foglalatú, maximum 15 W-os izzóval használható, 2 méteres kábellel.

• Modern, organikus designú asztali lámpa.
• Lágy, nem vakító fényt biztosít a diffúzorral.
• Kényelmesen elhelyezhető éjjeli szekrényen, polcon vagy komódon.

Objev podobné jako Stolní lampa NIGHT OWL 24 cm, kouřově bílá, Fritz Hansen

A Fritz Hansen SKAGERAK 43 cm-es fapadlója a svéd TAF tervezőirodával közösen kifejlesztett, esztétikai és funkcionális elem. A két átfedő fa réteg elegáns kétdimenziós megjelenést kölcsönöz, miközben kellő támaszt nyújt akár nehezebb kabátoknak is. Természetes felületkezelése kiemeli a fa mintázatát, fém kampója pedig biztonságos felfüggesztést tesz lehetővé.

• Két rétegű, átfedő fa kialakítás elegáns kétdimenziós megjelenéssel
• Természetes felületkezelés kiemeli a fa egyedi mintázatát
• Polírozott fém kampó biztos rögzítést biztosít bármely rúdon
• Funkcionális forma elegendő támaszt nyújt nehéz ruhadaraboknak is

Objev podobné jako Ramínko SKAGERAK 43 cm, dřevo, černá, Fritz Hansen

A Fritz Hansen SKAGERAK 43 cm-es fapadló a svéd TAF tervezőirodával közösen kifejlesztett designelem. Két egymást átfedő fa rétegből áll, amely elegáns megjelenést és kiemelkedő teherbírást biztosít. Természetes felületkezelésű, világosbarna színű, és poliérozott fém kampóval rendelkezik.

• Két rétegű fadesign elegáns megjelenéssel
• Természetes felületkezelés kiemeli a fa mintázatát
• Polírozott fém kampó biztonságos felfüggesztéshez
• Erős kialakítás nehéz ruhadarabokhoz is

Objev podobné jako Ramínko SKAGERAK 43 cm, dřevo, světle hnědá, Fritz Hansen

A Fritz Hansen NO. 10 szervírozó tálcát Teruhiro Yanagihara japán tervező alkotta, masszív tölgyfából készült. A minimalista japán-skandináv design a banjyu stílusra épül, alacsony profilja és moduláris kialakítása praktikussá teszi. Ideális szervírozásra és asztali dekorációként egyaránt, otthoni és professzionális környezetben is használható.

• Masszív tölgyfa anyag tartóssággal és természetes mintázattal
• Minimalista japán-skandináv design, amely funkcionalitást és esztétikát ötvöz
• Moduláris kialakítás, amely tökéletesen egymásba illeszkedik és praktikus tárolást biztosít
• Alacsony profil és enyhén emelt szélek biztonságos szállítást és kényelmes kezelést tesznek lehetővé

Objev podobné jako Servírovací podnos NO. 10 36 x 30 cm, dřevo, hnědá, Fritz Hansen

A Fritz Hansen SKAGERAK fapántja 43 cm széles, teakfából készült, sötétbarna színű. A TAF tervezőirodával közösen fejlesztették ki, vékony fa rétegek átfedéséből áll. Kiemelkedő teherbírással rendelkezik, alkalmas nehéz felsők tárolására anélkül, hogy deformálná azokat.

• Két rétegű teakfa kivitelezés elegáns megjelenéssel
• Természetes felületkezelés, kiemeli a fa textúráját
• Polírozott fém kampó biztos felfüggesztéshez
• 43 cm széles, alkalmas kabátok és zakók tárolására

Objev podobné jako Ramínko SKAGERAK 43 cm, dřevo, tmavě hnědá, Fritz Hansen

A Fritz Hansen NO. 10 tálca egy 45x32 cm-es masszív tölgyfa szervírozó tálca, amelyet Teruhiro Yanagihara japán designer tervezett minimalista japán-skandináv stílusban. A tálca alacsony profilja és moduláris kialakítása praktikus tárolást és biztonságos használatot kínál. Kiválóan alkalmas otthoni és professzionális környezetekben egyaránt, étkezői kiegészítőként vagy dekoratív elemként.

• Minimalista japán-skandináv design Teruhiro Yanagihara tervezésében.
• Masszív tölgyfa anyag, tartós és esztétikus megjelenéssel.
• Alacsony profil és enyhén emelt szélek biztonságos szállítást biztosítanak.
• Moduláris kialakítás, tökéletesen egymásba rakható tároláshoz.

Objev podobné jako Servírovací podnos NO. 10 45 x 32 cm, dřevo, hnědá, Fritz Hansen

WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone s freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If? Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall s signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages.

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Embrace the dark and conquer landscape photography at night!In the past, landscape photography largely ended when the last light of dusk faded from the sky. Today it s only beginning. The latest digital cameras have made it much easier to create images of the landscape at night that film and early digital photographers could only dream of. Equipped with off-the-shelf cameras, more and more photographers are venturing into the night, far beyond the comforting glow of city lights, and returning with spectacular images of places both familiar and unknown that are unlike anything seen before. Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night, 2nd Edition, is your guide to this new photographic world. In it, photographer Glenn Randall author of the bestselling The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography teaches you how to plan, shoot, and process professional-quality images of the Milky Way, the aurora, lunar eclipses, meteor showers, comets, star trails and landscapes lit solely by moonlight. In this fully revised and updated second edition, Randall goes deeper into today s technology that allows for great landscape photography at night: from mirrorless cameras that now truly dominate the market (and require a different approach to focusing) to the apps photographers need to know to best prepare for a successful shoot (Photo Pills, Photo Ephemeris Web). This edition has been also updated with dozens of new photographs from the author, as well as a new section on photographing comets. Throughout the book, Randall emphasises ways to integrate beautiful depictions of the night sky with equally compelling renditions of the land below it to create complete landscape images that evoke a sense of place and a sense of wonder. Equipped with the knowledge in this book, readers will be able to create their own nocturnal masterpieces.

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A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18thcentury. For decades ships continued to make the bar crossing with great peril, first with native guides and later with opportunistic newcomers, as Europeans settled in Washington and Oregon, displacing the natives and transforming the river into the hub of a booming region. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and despite the construction of jetties on either side, the bar remains treacherous, even today a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities in Washington and Oregon, the Coast Guard, and the Columbia River Bar Pilots – a small group of highly skilled navigators who help guide ships through the mouth of the Columbia.When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they’re met with skepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July 2021, when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the currents that have taken so many lives, Randall commemorates the brave sailors that made the crossing before him – including his own abusive father, a sailor himself who also once dared to cross the bar – and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and what drives men to extremes.Rich with exhaustive research and propulsive narrative, Graveyard of the Pacific follows historical shipwrecks through the moment-by-moment details that often determined whether sailors would live or die, exposing the ways in which boats, sailors, and navigation have changed over the decades. As he makes his way across the bar, floating above the wrecks and across the same currents that have taken so many lives, Randall Sullivan faces the past, both in his own life and on the Columbia River Bar.

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WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing.Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone s freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall s signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages.

Objev podobné jako What If?2 - Randall Munroe

Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw s Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler s startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation, from Czechoslovakia to Poland; addressing crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism; exploring the Holocaust and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively; and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to understand Hitler s motivation and impact. Magisterial ... anyone who wishes to understand the third reich must read Kershaw, for no on has done more to lay bare Hitler s morbid psyche Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph An achievement of the very highest order ... a marvellous book Michael Burleigh, Financial Times No previous biographer has examined Hitler s devilishness in Kershaw s detail ... his book is so comprehensive, so richly documented and so judicious that it will not soon be superseded Daniel Johnson, Daily Telegraph Ian Kershaw s other books include Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, Making Friends with Hitler, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-4 and The End: Hitler s Germany, 1944-45. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson History Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize.

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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10. From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.) In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10.Featuring brand-new 2-colour annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave you feeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not.

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Audiokniha: Audiokniha Jak na to – Absurdní vědecká řešení obyčejných každodenních problémů Autor Randall Munroe. Čte Jan Eisler. Nejzábavnější a nejneužitečnější domácí rádce. Od nápaditého tvůrce populárního webového komiksu xkcd a bestsellerů Co kdyby? a Velký vysvětlovač. Ať už se rozhodnete udělat cokoli, vždycky existuje dobré řešení, špatné řešení a řešení tak postavené na hlavu, že by se o něj nikdo soudný nepokusil. Jak na to je průvodce třetím ze zmíněných přístupů. Audiokniha je plná vysoce nepraktických rad k různým činnostem od přistávání s letadlem až po kopání jam. Oblíbený autor a kreslíř Randall Munroe vysvětluje, jak předpovídat počasí analýzou pixelů ve fotkách na Facebooku. Naučí vás měřením radioaktivity ve vašich zubech rozpoznat, jestli jste starý kmet, nebo mileniál. Poradí vám, jak si vyfotit selfie teleskopem, jak překonat řeku tím, že ji přivedete k varu nebo jak se zničením měsíce včas dostat na schůzku. Nahrávka vznikla podle knihy Randalla Munroe Jak na to – Absurdní vědecká řešení obyčejných každodenních problémů vydané nakladatelstvím Práh v roce 2020.

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Some of the happiest years of my life were spent cooking next to Theo. He s an extraordinary cook and his food is consistently delicious. What a wonderful cookbook broken down into simple, delicious chapters – I love it. Jamie OliverFrom biscotti to limoncello, the world s love affair with Italian delis goes back many years.The Italians have taken the very best of Italian produce all over the world. From Hong Kong to London, Sydney to Brooklyn, people everywhere have access to a treasure trove of ingredients through Italian delicatessens.Theo Randall s Italian Deli Cookbook showcases delicious family recipes using favorite ingredients. Easily accessible in supermarkets now too, and worth paying a little extra for the very best, these are transformative ingredients that can make for easy lunches and suppers, or dinner party centerpieces. With 100 recipes using cured meats, smoked fish, jarred vegetables, vinegars, olives, pasta, pulses, cheeses and wine, stunning photography throughout, and original, simple recipes, as well as a directory of classic delicatessens worldwide, elevate your cooking the easy way with the expert guidance of world-renowned chef Theo Randall.

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Secrets.What secrets are hidden at the heart of family life?Deceit.The lies we tell ourselves are often more dangerous than the truth.When forty-one-year-old Sarah Price is reported missing after having arranged a date with a man she met on the internet, her son is distraught. Meanwhile, Glasgow based Detective Inspectors Kat Wheeler and Steven Ross attend the scene of a murder. Michael O Donnell, a widower and devoted stay-at-home dad to his daughter, Paula, has been brutally killed. And Paula, who is vulnerable and dependent on daily medication, is missing.As Wheeler and Ross race to find Michael s killer and Paula s abductor, they are drawn into a tangled web of deceit. Soon they come to realise that the killer is watching them. And is always one step ahead...Praise for Anne Randall: Brilliant The Sun Randall has grown in confidence since her debut, and this is as assured and clever a novel of tartan noir as you could hope to find Daily Mail

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Listed as one of the Guardian s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin, but also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written. The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those last days of the Thousand Year Reich in the Berlin Bunker. Besieged in the shattered capital, but still dominating the remains of his court, Hitler reiterated the original alternative of Nazism: either total victory or annihilation. This book is the record of that carefully prepared, ceremonious finale to a terrible chapter of history. Brilliantly written and researched, The Last Days of Hitler remains the most vivid account of the final Wagnerian chapter of Hitler s tyranny â “ Max Hastings This is an incomparable book, by far the best written on any aspect of the second German war: a book sound in scholarship, brilliant in its presentation . . . No words of praise are too strong. â “ A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman

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HITLER PŘED BRANAMI je spolu s tituly DRUHÁ REPUBLIKA - NULTÁ HODINA a HITLER v ČECHÁCH součástí volné tématické trilogie. HITLER PŘED BRANAMI je kniha, která se všem líbit nebude. Odmítnou ji především ti, kteří se stále brání pochopit a přijmout osm set let českoněmeckého spolužití v jedné zemi reálně, beze všech předpojatostí a bez veškerého na dané velké historické téma nabaleného balastu. Tento v české bibliografii naprosto ojedinělý literární dokument sice akcentuje povstání Němců v Čechách a na Moravě v roce 1938 a jejich cestu k němu, ovšem uvádí je na pravou míru expozicí předchozího bezmála celé jedno tisíciletí trvajícího národnostního konfliktu. Logicky a neodvratně eskalujícího až k nezpochybnitelnému konci českých Němců po roce 1945. Stejně tak se však ptá pro kterou z obou nacionalit bylo právě tohle nakonec větší neštěstí. V knize uvedené skutečnosti, objevy nových souvislostí a z nich plynoucí závěry jsou nabízeny srozumitelně, přehledně a se zcela současným objektivním nadhledem. Vážní zájemci o naznačené historické téma navíc uvítají bohatou faktografii, nezbytný aparát i rozsáhlou kolekci dobových fotografií, map a obrazových dokumentů. HITLER PŘED BRANAMI je spolu s tituly DRUHÁ REPUBLIKA - NULTÁ HODINA a HITLER v ČECHÁCH součástí volné tématické trilogie.

Objev podobné jako Hitler před branami - Václav Junek

In 1930, as a young woman, Christa Schroeder became a stenographer for the Nazi party, before being noticed by Hitler who, in 1933, hired her as his private secretary. Schroeder remained by Hitler⠙s side, fiercely loyal, for twelve years, living at the Wolfsschanze and even joining him and his staff in the Führerbunker in Berlin in January 1945. In 1945, interned in the Augsburg camp, Christa Schroeder was interrogated by French liaison officer Albert Zoller who asked her to recount her years spent with the Führer. Schroeder⠙s testimony, published here in the form of interviews with Zollers, gives an intimate, astonishing and incredibly detailed insight into the private life and personality of Adolf Hitler throughout the 1930s and 1940s. An exceptional testimony, Twelve Years With Hitler is an essential source document on Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. Translated into English here for the first time, Albert Zoller⠙s interviews with Christa Schroeder are guaranteed to shock and fascinate any military history enthusiast. Albert Zoller was a French liaison officer who interviewed Adolf Hitler s private secretary Christa Schroeder while she was in detention in the Augsburg camp, Germany, in 1945.

Objev podobné jako Twelve Years With Hitler - Albert Zoller, Christa Schroeder

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ⠘Epic, moving and important⠙ ROBERT HARRIS I m not sure I ve ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it s also a memoir of miraculous survival . I can t recommend it enough ANTHONY HOROWITZ A modern classic⠙ OBSERVER⠘An unforgettable epic of a book⠙ DAILY MAILFrom longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father⠙s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.Daniel⠙s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen.Daniel⠙s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik⠙s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung.Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein⠙s parents⠙ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through.⠘Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant, moving account of the history of one family, and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century. If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin, read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them⠙ ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Objev podobné jako Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad - Daniel Finkelstein

At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust. In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Professor Frank McDonough charts the dramatic change of fortune for the Third Reich, and challenges long-held accounts of the Holocaust and Germany s ultimate defeat. Despite Hitler s grand ambitions and the successful early stages of the Third Reich s advances into Europe, Frank McDonough argues that Germany was only ever a middle-ranking power and never truly stood a chance against the combined forces of the Allies.

Objev podobné jako The Hitler Years - Disaster 1940 - 1945 - Frank McDonough

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ⠘Epic, moving and important⠙ ROBERT HARRIS I m not sure I ve ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it s also a memoir of miraculous survival . I can t recommend it enough ANTHONY HOROWITZ A modern classic⠙ OBSERVER⠘An unforgettable epic of a book⠙ DAILY MAILFrom longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father⠙s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.Daniel⠙s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen.Daniel⠙s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik⠙s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung.Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein⠙s parents⠙ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through.⠘Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant, moving account of the history of one family, and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century. If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin, read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them⠙ ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Objev podobné jako Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad - Daniel Finkelstein

A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy—using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today’s turn toward authoritarianism.Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy, as significant factions of the upper class methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacence and complicity of the English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition—and very nearly succeeded.As she highlights the parallels to our similarly treacherous time, Young exposes the involvement of secret organizations like the Right Club, which counted the Duke of Wellington among its influential members; the Cliveden Set, which ran a shadow foreign policy in support of Hitler; and the shocking four-year affair between socialite Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler.Eye-opening and instructive, Hitler’s Girl re-evaluates 1930s England to help us understand our own vulnerabilities and poses urgent questions we must face to protect our freedom. At what point does complacency become complicity, posing real risk to the democratic norms that we take for granted? Will democracy again succeed—and will it require a similarly cataclysmic event like World War II to ensure its survival? Will we, in our own defining moment, stand up for democratic values—or will we succumb to political extremism?

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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HOLOCAUST AND THE NAZI MIND You have to read it Volodymyr Zelensky Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account Professor Sir Ian Kershaw In this fascinating study of two monsters, Rees is extraordinarily perceptive and original Antony BeevorTwo tyrants. Each responsible for the death of millions. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years work - examines the two leaders during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history.Hitler s charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin s regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin s change in behaviour in response to events. But as bestselling historian Laurence Rees shows, at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering - in Hitler s case, most infamously the Holocaust - in order to build the utopias they wanted.Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers, civilians and those who knew both men personally, Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a master work from one of our finest historians.

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Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times By the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer s fortunes would turn dramatically as the conflict raged on. Realising that victory was lost, and with Soviet troops closing in on his Berlin bunker, Hitler committed suicide in April 1945; one week later, Nazi Germany surrendered. His murderous ambitions had not only annihilated his own country, but had cost the lives of millions across Europe. In the final volume of this landmark biography, Volker Ullrich argues that the very qualities - and the defects - that accounted for Hitler s popularity and rise to power were what brought about his ruin. A keen strategist and meticulous military commander, he was also a deeply insecure gambler who could be shaken by the smallest setback, and was quick to blame subordinates for his own disastrous mistakes. Drawing on a wealth of new sources and scholarship, this is the definitive portrait of the man who dragged the world into chaos.

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A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. Dazzlingly brilliant OBSERVER Mr Haffner ... has exposed better, and more briefly, than anyone else the clockwork of that infernal machine SUNDAY TELEGRAPHSebastian Haffner examines Hitler s lifespan, his performance, his successes, errors, intellectual misconceptions, crimes and, last but not least, his great betrayal of his nation, the Western world and human civilisation. What makes Haffner s book different is that it is not one more biography but an analysis - a most penetrating analysis - of what Hitler was up to in his astonishing career A.L. Rowse Mr Haffner...has exposed better, and more briefly, than anyone else the clockwork of that infernal machine Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Sunday Telegraph

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Hitlerovou osobností se zabývala řada autorů a vyšlo o něm nespočetně knih. „Hitler“ Joachima Festa patří k tomu nejlepšímu a nejpravdivějšímu, co lze v „hitlerologické“ literatuře nalézt. Festova knih zahájila novou éru zamýšlení se nad touto negativní postavou, jež přesto patří do evropských dějin. Historik a spisovatel Fest patří k nejlepším znalcům Hitlerovy osoby. Jeho biografie „Hitler“ je považována za základní kámen historického bádání. Díky své odborné erudici byl Fest přizván i ke spolupráci na známém velkofilmu „Pád třetí říše“. Podkladem k sepsání scénáře se stal jeden z jeho bestsellerů. Festův „Hitler“ je významným dílem, jež zkoumá vůdcovu osobnost ze všech úhlů a zasazuje ji do celoevropských souvislostí. Kniha podrobně popisuje příčiny Hitlerova vzestupu a dívá se na ně mnohdy z nezvyklých psychologických pohledů.

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Tato kniha od tvůrce veleoblíbeného webového komiksu xkcd vám nabízí překvapivé odpovědi na důležité otázky, na které vás nejspíš nikdy ani nenapadlo se zeptat.Miliony lidí každý týden navštěvují web xkcd.com, aby si mohly přečíst kultovní webový komiks Randalla Munroea. Jeho obrázky s hůlkovými panáčky pojednávající o vědě, technice, jazycích a lásce si už našly spousty oddaných fanoušků, a stejně tak jsou oblíbené i jeho výzkumem podložené odpovědi na ty nejpodivnější otázky čtenářů.Dotazy, které dostává, mají široký záběr od těch jednoduše podivných až po ty naprosto ďábelské:Co kdybych si šel zaplavat do bazénu, kde se skladuje vyhořelé jaderné palivo?Dal by se postavit batoh podobný tomu raketovému, ale poháněný pálícími samopaly?Co kdyby New York zasáhlo zemětřesení o síle 15 stupňů Richterovy stupnice?Co kdyby někomu najednou zmizela DNA?V honbě za odpovědí Randall vesele provádí počítačové simulace, prohrabává se horami odtajněných vojenských zpráv, konzultuje s obsluhou jaderných reaktorů, stopuje scény z Hvězdných válek, volá své matce a googlí některá opravdu děsivá zvířata. Výsledkem jsou komické perly, které precizně a zároveň zábavně vysvětlují všechno možné, od pravděpodobnosti, že se setkáte se svým dokonalým protějškem, až po nesčetně děsivých způsobů, jakými byste mohli zemřít, kdybyste se rozhodli sestavit si kompletní periodickou tabulku ze skutečných prvků.Tato kniha obsahuje výběr nejoblíbenějších odpovědí z blogu What If?, spousta otázek (51 procent!) je ale nová a poprvé zodpovězená až zde. Co kdyby? je informační hostinou pro fanoušky xkcd.com a všechny, kdo rádi hloubají nad tím, co by mohlo být.

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Nejzábavnější a nejneužitečnější domácí rádce. Od nápaditého tvůrce populárního webového komiksu xkcd a bestsellerů Co kdyby? a Velký vysvětlovač. Ať už se rozhodnete udělat cokoli, vždycky existuje dobré řešení, špatné řešení a řešení tak postavené na hlavu, že by se o něj nikdo soudný nepokusil. Jak na to je průvodce třetím ze zmíněných přístupů. Kniha je plná vysoce nepraktických rad k různým činnostem od přistávání s letadlem až po kopání jam. Oblíbený autor a kreslíř Randall Munroe vysvětluje, jak předpovídat počasí analýzou pixelů ve fotkách na Facebooku. Naučí vás měřením radioaktivity ve vašich zubech rozpoznat, jestli jste starý kmet, nebo mileniál. Poradí vám, jak si vyfotit selfie teleskopem, jak překonat řeku tím, že ji přivedete k varu nebo jak se zničením měsíce včas dostat na schůzku. A jestli se téhle knihy budete chtít po přečtení zbavit, provede vás jednotlivými možnostmi vhodné likvidace, včetně rozpuštění v moři, změny skupenství na páru, vcucnutí do zemského pláště pomocí tektonických desek nebo vystřelení do slunce. Prozkoumávání komplikovaných řešení jednoduchých úkolů ale není jenom výstřelek, kterým Munroe sobě i čtenářům přidělává práci. Stejně jako v Co kdyby?, i v této knize se mu znamenitě daří inspirovat nás ke zkoumání absurdních zákoutí možného. Pomocí důmyslné infografiky a zábavných ilustrací nám kniha Jak na to zábavně podvratnou formou pomáhá pochopit vědecké poznatky a technologie, na kterých stojí celý dnešní svět.

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Autor bestsellerů Co kdyby? a Jak na to zodpovídá další prapodivné otázky, které vás nikdy nenapadlo položit.*****Miliony lidí po celém světě, kteří četli a zamilovali si knihu Co kdyby?, stále nevyčerpaly všechny otázky – naopak, jejich dotazy jsou čím dál podivnější. Naštěstí na pomoc přispěchal autor komiksu xkcd Randall Munroe!*****Rádi byste se po hasičské tyči svezli z Měsíce na Zemi? Nejtěžší bude vychytat přistání. Napadlo vás ochlazovat atmosféru tím, že všichni lidé na světě otevřou své ledničky dokořán? Možná potřebujete stručnou lekci termodynamických zákonů. Zajímá vás, co se stane, když se pokusíte svézt na rotoru vrtulníku, postavit budovu vysokou miliardu pater, vyrobit lávovou lampu ze skutečné lávy nebo skočit do gejzíru v okamžik výtrysku? No dobře, když jinak nedáte…*****Ale ještě než se vypravíte na kosmicky´ road trip, předložíte obyvatele New Yorku jako potravu tyranosauru rexovi nebo vyplníte všechny světové svatostánky banány, nezapomeňte se poradit s tímto praktickým průvodcem nepraktickými nápady. Munroe se nezalekne absurdností a konfrontuje je s nejnovějšími vědeckými poznatky o všem od pohybu houpaček až po konstrukci leteckých katapultů. Otázky čtenářů zodpovídá jasně a srozumitelně, za pomoci osvětlujících a příležitostně i znepokojivých ilustrací. A opakovaně prokazuje, že leccos o fungování světa se můžeme dozvědět zkoumáním svérázných extrémních situací.

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Nerd royalty Ben Goldacre Laugh-out-loud funny Bill Gates Totally brilliant Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alter the space-time continuum to answer them?Whether it s how to make a lava lamp out of lava or feeding the inhabitants of New York to a T. Rex, welcome to the weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) world of WHAT IF? 2

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The New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorFor fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls this charming debut novel and TikTok sensation is packed full of romance, charm and plenty of magic . . .Revelare witches are cursed. As long as they use their magic, they are doomed to four heartbreaks.So far, Sadie Revelare has experienced three â “ the devastating departure of her mother and the loss of her brother. And the most painful heartbreak of all: Jake McNealy, her first love. Ever since, Sadie has done everything she can to protect herself from more pain.But now Sadie s beloved grandmother is sick. And without her, Sadie isn t sure she will have the strength to keep her family and her magic together.As Sadieâ ™s carefully structured life begins to unravel, Jake returns to town after a decade away. And in the face of a final heartbreak that could tear Sadie apart, she must decide once and for all: is love more important than magic?The perfect read for anyone looking for a cosy and warm, witchy novel to curl up with this autumn.***Perfect for fans of:Witchy romanceSmall-town settings Second chance love stories***Readers LOVE Breanne Randall: Wow wow wow. A story of the heart!!! A literal dream. I love each and every word. I could see it all play out in my brain like a film. - Amazon reviewer, 5* This book will rip your heart out, stamp on it, set it on fire, and put it back together again. - Amazon reviewer, 5* I definitely escaped into the pages of this magical read. - Amazon reviewer, 5* I was really drawn to the Practical Magic vibes this book gave off. I love all things full of love and witches. - Amazon reviewer, 5*

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From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ( blueprints if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It s good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it s much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can t explain something to a first-year student, you don t really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ( microwaves ), our very tall roads ( bridges ), and our computer rooms ( datacentres ) - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button?In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Nerd royalty BEN GOLDACRE Totally brilliant TIM HARFORD Required reading across the world NEW YORK TIMESFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe s iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.

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Cook and eat the Italian way, with 100 fresh, wholesome and delicious vegetarian recipes. World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 favorite vegetables and reveals the best ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Aubergines, Zucchini, Asparagus, Artichokes, Mushrooms, Broccoli, Tomatoes, Beans, Squash and Potatoes. From simple pasta dishes to more extravagant dinners for when you have people over, you #39;ll delight in Theo #39;s take on the very best of Italian home cooking. Packed with flavor and stunning photography, this is an essential cookbook and a modern take on the best of Italian ingredients and vegetarian home cooking.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA History Today Best Book of the Year 2025⠘Elegantly written and powerfully argued ⠦ it ranks among the best works on this terrible period⠙ Sunday TimesA biographical study of Hitler s inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regimeWhy did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too long, the Nazis have been presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us. Evans offers rounded, fresh and often startling new portraits of the men and women who created and served Nazi Germany, beginning with Hitler himself and going on to encompass leading figures like Göring, Goebbels and Himmler, enforcers of Hitler⠙s orders such as Eichmann and Heydrich, propagandists like Leni Riefenstahl, low-level perpetrators such as the notorious Irma Grese and unknown sympathizers and fellow-travellers who helped the regime in myriad ways. Hitler⠙s People is a chilling, brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have disappeared.

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George Ward Price rose to prominence as the leading journalist in the 1930s, thanks to a string of world exclusives on Nazi Germany. He spent an hour alone with Hitler and Göring after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland, stood next to Hitler as he addressed a crowd on the night of the invasion of Austria, and joined him for afternoon tea at the Eagle⠙s Nest following his historic first meeting with Neville Chamberlain.These stories made Ward Price world famous, but he often seemed uncomfortable in the glare of the spotlight, hiding his true self behind a carefully cultivated veneer of suave and easy-going charm. It meant that he left unanswered questions: what drove his all-consuming ambition? Was his success down to journalist brilliance, or was there something more sinister that lay behind it? And were there any lengths to which he would not go to make sure that, as one of his colleagues put it, he ⠘always got his story⠙?Interviewing Hitler is the first book to explore the real Ward Price and the truth behind his reporting on the Nazis. It is a journey that takes us through a series of century-shaping events and deep into the dark heart of British journalism. As well as being one of the most controversial figures in newspaper history, Ward Price⠙s career serves as a warning for today⠙s world of disinformation and fake news.

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Poems about historical women in STEM fields.Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes they simply managed to exist and persist despite endless obstacles and a criminal lack of acknowledgment. Carefully researched, thoughtful, pitch perfect and precise, these poems about historical women scientists are hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time. There are women here whose names you may know (Rachel Carson, Mae Jemison, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Beatrix Potter) and others you probably don’t (Tapputi-Belatekallim, June Bacon-Bercey, Eugenie Clark, Beatrice Medicine, Gladys West). Randall has a fine-tuned knack for metaphor and plain language, and her poetry unpicks injustice alongside complex scientific ideas. If you’ve seen Randall’s poems in Scientific American, Analog, or Asimov’s Science Fiction, you may already have been drawn into these extraordinary stories. Illustrated with portraits by NASA artist Kristin DiVona, these poems will resonate with scientists, feminists, thinkers, learners, philosophers, poets, and truth-seekers young, old and everywhere in between.

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The Hitler Youth was founded in 1922 as the youth organisation of the German Nazi Party in Germany. After Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, the organisation gained importance as a route to indoctrinating German youth with the ideals espoused by the Nazis. As war approached it became partially a paramilitary organisation and as war broke out and Germany came under greater pressure, many very young boys saw military action, fighting and dying for the country. Featuring contemporary photographs, The Hitler Youth tells the story of the origins of the movement in more innocent aims, and how its aims morphed over time to become a powerful way to disseminate Nazi ideas to an undiscerning audience.

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On 7 November 1938, an impoverished seventeen-year-old Polish Jew living in Paris, obsessed with Nazi persecution of his family in Germany, brooding on revenge - and his own insignificance - bought a handgun, carried it on the Metro to the German Embassy in Paris and, never before having fired a weapon, shot down the first German diplomat he saw. When the official died two days later, Hitler and Goebbels used the event as their pretext for the state-sponsored wave of anti-Semitic violence and terror known as Kristallnacht, the pogrom that was the initiating event of the Holocaust.Overnight this obscure young man, Herschel Grynszpan, found himself world-famous, his face on front pages everywhere, and a pawn in the machinations of power. Instead of being executed, he found himself a privileged prisoner of the Gestapo while Hitler and Goebbels prepared a show-trial. The trial, planned to the last detail, was intended to prove that the Jews had started the Second World War. Alone in his cell, Herschel soon grasped how the Nazis planned to use him, and set out to wage a battle of wits against Hitler and Goebbels, knowing perfectly well that if he succeeded in stopping the trial, he would certainly be murdered. Until very recently, what really happened has remained hazy. Hitlerâ ™s Scapegoat, based on the most recent research - including access to a heretofore untapped archive compiled by a Nuremberg rapporteur - tells Herschelâ ™s extraordinary story in full for the first time.

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Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler s regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding Hitler s bomb . The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Hitler s Atomic Bomb sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker s visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends.

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Though less famous than Rommel or von Manstein, Hermann Balck was considered by peers and enemies to be among the most talented German commanders of the Second World War. He was a veteran of the First World War, in which he served as a junior officer on the Western, Eastern, Italian and Balkan fronts and was wounded seven times. In 1940 he led the successful crossing of the River Meuse with dramatic consequences. Balck led from the front in the new and very dynamic and aggressive command style of Auftragstaktik- continuously touring forward HQs to brief officers personally, regardless of personal risk. He refused two offers to join the General Staff preferring to remain in combat roles. Balck was a pivotal moving force behind the growth of the Panzer forces. In 1942 he commanded a depleted division against massive odds, virtually destroying Soviet 5th Tank Army. He was rewarded with the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds (one of only 27 recipients) He briefly commanded Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division and suggested Hitler was wrong in how the Waffen-SS was constructed. Philip Kay-Bujak argues that, had Hitler ignored Balck s criticisms of the Waffen-SS and promoted him Field Marshal, Balck might have changed the course of the war on the Eastern Front. It was also Balck that nearly defeated the Americans at Salerno in 1943. Commanding Army Group G, in 1944 he came up against General Patton but could not halt his advance in Alsace. First sacked then reinstated by Hitler, he fought on until surrendering to US forces on 8 May 1944 to avoid capture by the Soviets. Post-war, as a convicted war criminal, Balck chose obscurity and refused to take part in US interviews but by the 1980 s he changed his mind on both and advised NATO on how to win a land war against Russia - his tactics are still relevant today.

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I love this book, full of joyfully simple, scrumptious, honest cooking – Theo has created the most delicious dishes. You won #39;t be able to resist. – Jamie Oliver Elevate your cooking and eating the easy way with The Italian Pantry. World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 pantry staples and reveals his favorite ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Tomatoes, Porcini Mushrooms, Parmesan, Lemons, Leafy Greens, Ricotta, Polenta, Pine nuts, Honey and Breadcrumbs. From simple pasta dishes and more extravagant dinners for when you have people over, to delectable desserts and classic Italian cakes, you #39;ll delight in Theo #39;s take on the very best of Italian home cooking. Packed with flavor and stunning photography, this is an essential cookbook and a modern take on the best of Italian ingredients.

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As the war progressed Hitler did not need obedient bureaucrats like Keitel, failures like Paulus and was paranoid about having military leaders who were loyal. The three field marshals in this book were amongst the best. Field Marshal Kesselring gained a reputation in Italy as an expert in defence, and his Allied code name was The Emperor. Kesselring was diplomatic, charming, known as Smiling Albert, but convicted as a war criminal which may not have happened had it not been for the bitter partisan war. Field Marshal Rommel is surrounded by myths which need disentangling. He possessed exceptional qualities of command and leadership, with personal courage and determination, but had problems caused by two major reasons. The first was his relentless ambition, which prevented him from self-criticism and self-evaluation. The second was his meteoric rise in command, and like many other commanders driven by ambition. Field Marshal Model when on the battlefield led his men so well it is surprising that little is known of him. He fought defensive battles in a way hardly matched by any other German general. He had the immense capability of keeping his nerve, but his skills as a commander, were not matched by the sort of personality which may have given him a similar status as with Rommel, and not helped by challenging Hitler. Model had a reputation of being so tough even Hitler claimed he would not want to serve under him, he was known as the Frontschwein (front-line pig).

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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler s Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do more harm than good.The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. The occupied countries had been ravaged and plundered, millions of people murdered, cities laid in ashes. There was every reason to make the defeated Germans pay for Hitler s debt as The New York Times called the gigantic damage inflicted. But whereas the Soviet Union punished East Germany, the Western Allies, at the London Debt Conference (1952) decided to forgo all war-related debts. The Federal Republic of Germany - the Western successor state of Nazi Germany - had to settle no more than half of all outstanding debts stemming from pre-war obligations and post-war assistance. Only Israel and private Jewish organisations received reparations from the Federal Republic, but it was a modest amount.Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler s Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do more harm than good.These actions challenged widely held notions of justice. People who had suffered most from the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany were not compensated. The deal was unfair in many ways, but diplomats and politicians had to make hard choices. Five statesmen were particularly bold: U.S. Secretary of State Acheson, German Chancellor Adenauer, French Foreign Minister Schuman as well as Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Sharett. Tobias Straumann explains why the personalities involved deserve to be remembered for their strategic clarity in the face of enormous resistance.

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Bestselling historian Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series. The penultimate title in the Hitler s Germany series, the book marks the end of the Second World War, and the end of the Nazi regime, offering the reader a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters, significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s, that would evolve into full-blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two.The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933â “1945 describes in detail the development of early persecution formulated by Adolf Hitler from as far back as the early 1920s, placing in context what was to come once the Nazi Party gained power in 1933; the Nuremberg Laws to constrain the German-Jewish population. It covers the countryâ ™s slow slide into a pre-war policy of intimidation that would culminate in the murderous attacks on â ˜Kristallnachtâ ™ (the â ˜Night of Broken Glassâ ™). As Europe marched into another global conflict in 1939, tens of thousands of German Jews had fled the country only to be swept up as Hitlerâ ™s armies conquered all Western Europe. With the invasion of the Soviet Union, the secret meeting in early 1942 (the Wannsee Conference) would utilise the war in the east to plan in intricate detail the annihilation of the Jewish population on the continent â “ known to all now as the â ˜Final Solutionâ ™.The fully illustrated book draws together and engages with the latest scholarly research, makes extensive use of primary research, presenting a vivid and shocking narrative. A tragic and deadly period in German and European history is brought to life by one of the countryâ ™s premier scholars.

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Remarkable memoir of one of the last people to leave Hitler s Bunker Includes profiles of prominent members of Hitler s inner circle

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Kniha - autor Laurence Rees, 528 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Two tyrants. Each responsible for the death of millions. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two leaders during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear, and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But as bestselling historian Laurence Rees shows, at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering - in Hitler's case, most infamously the Holocaust - in order to build the utopias they wanted.

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