Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.

Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.

Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...

In this powerful and revelatory new work, historian Mary Fulbrook takes on one of the most fraught issues in modern times: the role of ordinary Germans in enabling the rise of Nazism and with it the exclusion, persecution, and then extermination of millions of people across Europe. The question often asked of the Nazi era 'what and when did ordinary Germans know about the crimes being committed...

LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Victor Klemperers Analyse der Sprache des Nationalsozialismus und ihrer Wirkungsmacht ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ist es ein historisches Dokument ersten Ranges von der Selbstrettung eines Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftlers in hoffnungsloser Zeit. Die Ausgabe von Elke Fröhlich erschließt den Text, seinen zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund...

In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic...

The author is a well known specialist on the history of Albania and international relations in the Balkans. The volume is the first academic investigation at the problems of Albania in the 20th century. The author makes great use of archives in Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, the USSR/Russia and Yugoslavia.

This massive work by the German historian Johann Droysen is still, after 150 years, one of the standard works on the rise and fall of Hellenism. Beginning with the campaigns and conquests of Alexander the Great and ending with the collapse of the Hellenistic outposts, such as Ptolemaic Egypt and the rise of the new Roman empire.

The book is dedicated to little-studied, but extremely dramatic pages of the history of the Civil War and partisan struggle in Siberia and the East with the participation of the Siberian Cossack army. This story is quite comparable to what happened on the 'quiet Don' or the 'free Kuban'. The author describes mainly the military side of events, relying on documents from the Cossack funds of a...

One of the first books to examine the history of Iran in the 20th century. The author especially examines the relations between Iran and Russia and other European and Arab states.