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Category : Reformed Church
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The Heidelberg Catechism
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Category : Reformed Church
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Reformed Church
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Author: Volker Ullrich
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631498282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631498282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
Coryats Crudities: Selections
Author: Thomas Coryate
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate’s five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England. This edition abridges the Crudities’ more than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most likely to be of interest to students—such as Coryate’s descriptions of Venetian mountebanks, courtesans, and Jews; his crossing of the Alps; and his attendance at a Corpus Christi celebration in Paris. The selection of contextual materials includes illustrations from the first edition, along with a sampling from another eccentric feature of the Crudities: a collection of mock commendatory poems making fun of Coryate and his journey.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770485449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate’s five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats Crudities, one of the strangest travelogues published in early modern England. This edition abridges the Crudities’ more than 900 pages to a manageable size, focusing on episodes most likely to be of interest to students—such as Coryate’s descriptions of Venetian mountebanks, courtesans, and Jews; his crossing of the Alps; and his attendance at a Corpus Christi celebration in Paris. The selection of contextual materials includes illustrations from the first edition, along with a sampling from another eccentric feature of the Crudities: a collection of mock commendatory poems making fun of Coryate and his journey.
A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Late Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of His Majesty Frederic William IV. at the Court of St. James
Author: baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen
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Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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A Memoir of Baron Bunsen
Author: baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Rome and its neighborhood visited in eight days
Author: Ermanus Loescher
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A Memoir of Baron Bunsen
Author: Frances Waddington Bunsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108204082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 657
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A lively and fascinating account of the political life of the nineteenth-century Prussian diplomat and scholar Baron von Bunsen.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108204082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
A lively and fascinating account of the political life of the nineteenth-century Prussian diplomat and scholar Baron von Bunsen.
The Traveller's Handbook for the Rhine (south-western Germany) and the Black Forest ...
Author: Thomas Cook (Firm)
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Category : Black Forest (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Black Forest (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Rome and Its Neighbourhood Visited in Eight Days
Author: Rome (Italie).
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition
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Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
ISBN: 1464964882
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1992
Book Description
Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine. The editors have built Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
ISBN: 1464964882
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1992
Book Description
Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine. The editors have built Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Tissue Engineering and Transplant and Transfusion Medicine: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.