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...

Zeitroman und Schicksalspanorama. Der ‚Anschluss’ Österreichs durch die Nazis im März 1938 und ihr Einmarsch in Wien waren ein traumatischer Wendepunkt in der europäischen Geschichte. Anschaulich und detailreich erzählt Manfred Flügge vom tragischen Irrtum Kurt Schuschniggs und dem Versagen der Weltöffentlichkeit. In einem Wechsel von historischer Darstellung und beispielhaften...

Eine provokante Untersuchung zum deutschen Seelenfrieden Zum ersten Mal seit dem Ende der Ausstellung "Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944" äußert sich Hannes Heer über Hintergründe der Kampagne gegen die Schau, deren Leiter er war. Sie hatte die Legende von der sauberen Wehrmacht in Frage gestellt, und der Schock war entsprechend groß. Die Versuche, die Ausstellung zu...

Настоящее учебное пособие предназначено для формирования и развития переводческих знаний и умений студентов, обучающихся на военной кафедре при МГИМО МИД России по программе подготови сержантов запаса ВГУС 914 (558).

This book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation, extracted from the Bakhmetev archive of Columbia University (New York) and emigre publications.

The highest military decoration in the Russian Empire, and in the Russian Federation after 1994. The order was created by Catherine the Great in 1796.

Rudolph Peterskhagen was a colonel in the Knights Cavalier and was gravely wounded near Stalingrad. After his recovery he was named commander of the city of Greifsvald [Neuenkirchen, Germany]. In the spring of 1945, not wanting more senseless death, Peterskhagen gave the city to the Red Army. This was the only instance in which the Red Army took a city without combat. In the early 1950's,...

Memoirs of a German officer, in which the author talks about his service in the Reichswehr, Hitler's Wehrmacht and the Bundeswehr. In 1960, Bruno Winzer, a staff officer in the Bundeswehr, secretly left West Germany and crossed into the territory of the German Democratic Republic, where he published this book - the story of his life.