Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Franz Werfel, nach Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger und unzähligen anderen, die seit 1933 in Frankreich Asyl gefunden haben. Derweil kommt der Amerikaner Varian Fry nach Marseille, um so viele von ihnen wie möglich zu retten. Uwe Wittstock erzählt die aufwühlende Geschichte ihrer Flucht unter...

Dieser Band bietet einen eindrucksvollen Überblick über die Bedeutung Bayerns in der europäischen Geschichte und die Einflüsse der europäischen Nachbarländer auf die bayerische Geschichte. Die Zeitspanne reicht vom frühen Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Die Beiträge behandeln unter anderem die Bedeutung der irischen Missionare für die Verbreitung des Christentums in Bayern, die Rolle...

Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche – diese drei Denker haben das 19. wie das 20. Jahrhundert tief beeinflusst. Als Zeitgenossen, die sich wechselseitig mit Verehrung, Ablehnung oder Ignoranz gegenüberstanden, prägten sie eine Zeit von enormer wissenschaftlicher Vielfalt und gesellschaftlicher Dynamik. Ihre Antagonismen und Widersprüche führen ins Herz der deutschen Entwicklung. Herfried Münkler folgt...

Jens Bisky legt eine Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte Berlins vor, wie es sie seit Jahrzehnten nicht gegeben hat, vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis in die Gegenwart. Eine faszinierende Erzählung über Aufstieg, Fall und Neubeginn – und zugleich ein packendes Panorama deutscher wie europäischer Geschichte im Spiegel einer einzigartigen Metropole.

As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...

Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their...

Documents of the Soviet state security agencies, declassified in Ukraine, have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, stories found by Eduard Andryushchenko in archival files were turned into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories were outstanding artists and...

The war divided families, took away lives, crippled destinies...It is important to know and remember at any time. Even after many decades, new details, memories and testimonies appear. The war is (not) ours — not only for the Motherland,but also for the interests of several totalitarian states. The war is ours - even after eighty years. The war is alive - we remember. The war is different - it...

Iryna Slavinska writes about everyday things that are definitely familiar to you: a change of wardrobe with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, childhood memories of turning off the lights and the reality of a blackout. Each story is a reflection on the life of the residents of the ‘rear’ cities, who now stock up on fast food and pay attention to the schedules of electricity blackouts in...

Many cultural phenomena, human destinies and literary works are hidden under the concept of ‘sixties’. This book offers the reader a journey into the microcosm of the Ukrainian sixties - young people who created a new culture during the Khrushchev ‘thaw’. Delving into the world, which, contrary to the rules of the Soviet totalitarian regime, was based on the principles of solidarity, mutual...

Anna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life under the iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor’s The Berlin Wall and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to...

Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing her brother, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, and as a woman, a civilian, and...