Category: General European Biographies

This resource publication provides new translations of an important historical writings at the lifestyles and legacy of Alexander the nice.

• Provides finished insurance of Alexander, from his relatives historical past to his army conquests, demise and legacy.
• Includes giant extracts of texts written by way of historians, geographers, biographers and armed forces writers.
• A normal advent and introductions to every bankruptcy set the resources in context.
• Also contains a bibliography of contemporary works, visible assets and a map of Alexander's
  expedition.

whilst the curtains fell at the 'Thousand-Year Reich', in might 1945, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg left for impartial Stockholm, in simple terms to be takn presently thereafter to Frankfurt and London for interogating. The 'Final file' at the Case of Walter Schellenberg is the unveiling fabricated from these Allied interogations. Reinhard R Doerries has written the 1st scholarly appraisal of Schellenberg as a Nazi chief and Hitler's ultimate head of international intelligence.

The family members of Earl Godwin of Wessex stands one of the most renowned in English background, whose most renowned son used to be King Harold.

Frank Barlow charts the relations via to Harold – the final Anglo-Saxon king – and at last the crowning of William the Conqueror throughout the Norman Conquest. Set opposed to the backdrop of Viking raids and finally the Norman Conquest of 1066, Frank Barlow unravels the gripping heritage of a feuding relations that however made up our minds the path and fortunes of the entire English.

of the main recognized mosaics from the traditional global, within the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, at the wall dealing with him, his spouse, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait supplies no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her unbelievable upward push to popularity and gear. Raised in a kinfolk of circus performers close to Constantinople's Hippodrome, she deserted a winning performing profession in her overdue youth to keep on with a lover whom she was once legally forbidden to marry. whilst he left her, she was once a unmarried mom who equipped a brand new lifestyles for herself as a undercover agent, during which function she met the inheritor to the throne. To the surprise of the ruling elite, the 2 have been married, and whilst Justinian assumed energy in 527, they governed the japanese Roman Empire together.

Their reign was once the main celebrated in Byzantine heritage, bringing wealth, status, or even Rome itself again to the Empire. Theodora was once one of many dominant political figures of her period, aiding form imperial international and household coverage and two times saving her husband from threatened deposition. She performed a imperative position attempting to remedy the non secular disputes of her period and proactively assisted girls who have been being trafficked. a very capable baby-kisser, she excited admiration and hatred from these round her. Enemies wrote commonly and imaginatively approximately her presumed early occupation as a prostitute, whereas supporters increased her, fairly actually, to sainthood.

Theodora's is a story of a lady of outstanding expertise who overcame huge hindrances to accomplish very good energy, which she exercised with no ever forgetting the place she had come from. In Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, David Potter penetrates the hugely biased money owed of her present in the writings of her contemporaries and takes good thing about the most recent study on early Byzantium to craft a latest, well-rounded, and fascinating narrative of Theodora's existence. This attention-grabbing portrait will intrigue all readers with an curiosity in historical and women's history.

Atatürk, den Gründer der modernen Türkei, stellt M. Sükrü Hanioglu hier in einer tiefgehenden und differenzierten Biographie dar. Im Jahr 1923 wird Mustafa Kemal der erste Präsident der neu gegründeten Republik Türkei. Als Machtpolitiker und Symbolfigur eines neuen starken Nationalbewusstseins treibt er die Veränderung und Modernisierung seines Landes nach westlichem Vorbild voran. Er bricht mit alten Traditionen, schafft Sultanat und Kalifat ab, orientiert sich an europäischer Gesetzgebung und sorgt für die Gleichstellung der Frauen. Seine Veränderungen brachten ihm den Beinamen Atatürk (Vater der Türken) ein und generierten einen regelrechten Personenkult um ihn.
Der Autor zeigt, welche Strömungen und Ideen den Gründer der modernen Türkei beeinflussten und in welchem historischen Klima er lebte, um schließlich ein Land von Grund auf zu verändern. Dabei blickt er auch auf die Wirkung und Wahrnehmung Atatürks in der heutigen Türkei.

Wollen Sie wissen, wie Mundart-Musiker Büne Huber im Naturhistorischen Museum seine grösste kreative Krise überwand?
Sind Sie neugierig, warum ihre erste optimum am Berner Stadttheater Heidi Maria Glössner besonders in Erinnerung geblieben ist?
Möchten Sie erfahren, wie Heinz »Hene« Minder als Balljunge das Wunder von Bern hautnah miterlebte?

Dieses Buch begleitet Berner zu ihren persönlichen Orten und erzählt ihre Geschichten. Ein außergewöhnliches Stadtporträt, das einlädt, die Bundesstadt neu zu entdecken!

On February four, 1941, Nanda Herbermann, a German Catholic author and editor, was once arrested through the Gestapo in Münster, Germany. Accused of collaboration with the Catholic move, Herbermann was once deported to Ravensbrück focus Camp for ladies in July 1941 and later published upon direct orders from Heinrich Himmler on March 19, 1943. even though she was once prompt by way of the Gestapo to not display information regarding the camp, Herbermann quickly started to list her thoughts of her reviews. The Blessed Abyss was once initially released in German lower than the imprint of the Allied profession forces in 1946, and it now seems to be in English for the 1st time. Hester Baer and Elizabeth Baer contain an in depth creation that situates Herbermann's paintings inside of present debates approximately gender and the Holocaust and gives old and biographical information regarding Herbermann, Ravensbrück, and the 3rd Reich.

From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the genuine lifestyles tale of the way his great-uncle—a Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con man—managed to cheat Hitler’s brokers within the run-up to WWII.

All his existence, journalist Walter Shapiro assumed that the outlandish tales approximately his great-uncle Freeman have been exaggerated family members lore; a few cockamamie Jewish revenge fantasies dreamt as much as entertain the children and venerate their larger-than-life relative. purely while he all started learning Freeman Bernstein’s lifestyles did he detect that his relatives used to be truly maintaining back—the guy had sufficient tales, vocations, and IOUs to fill a dozen lifetimes. Freeman was once many folks: a vaudeville supervisor, boxing promoter, inventory swindler, card shark and self-proclaimed “Jade King of China.” yet his maximum name, possibly the one guy who can declare such infamy, was once because the guy Who Hustled Hitler.
            A move among The evening They Raided Minsky’s and Guys and Dolls, Freeman Bernstein’s lifestyles used to be itself an outdated big apple sideshow extravaganza, one who Shapiro expertly phases in Hustling Hitler. From a ragtag early life in Troy, long island, Shapiro follows his great-uncle’s ever-crooked trajectory via exhibit enterprise, from his early schemes at the burlesque circuit to marrying his superstar performer, may possibly Ward, and generating silent films—released basically in Philadelphia. after all, all of Freeman’s cons and schemes have been easily a prelude to February 18, 1937, the day he used to be arrested by means of the LAPD outdoors of Mae West’s condo in Hollywood.
            The cost? Grand larceny—for dishonest Adolf Hitler and the Nazi govt. within the capstone of his slippery profession, Freeman had promised to send thirty-five a whole bunch embargoed Canadian nickel to the Führer; whilst the shipment arrived, the Germans chanced on in basic terms large, lifeless amounts of scrap steel and tin. It was once a blow to their economic system and conflict preparations—and Hitler didn't take the bait-and-switch lightly.
            advised with cinematic verve and hilarious point of view, Hustling Hitler is Shapiro’s impressive research into the guy at the back of the parable. by way of reconstructing his great-uncle’s outstanding profession, Shapiro has remodeled Freeman Bernstein from a slightly there footnote in historical past to the larger-than-life, everlasting hustler who eternally replaced it.

From the Hardcover edition.

With global warfare I and Egypt's vibrant politics as historical past, C.W.R. lengthy tells the tale of 4 proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd), their valuable opponent, Sa'ad Zaghul, and the good occasions of the time: the increase of the Wafd social gathering, the rebellion of 1919, the homicide of Sir Lee Stack and the Allenby ultimatum. He sheds new mild at the strife of contributors of the excessive fee between themselves and the overseas place of work, at the fight among Egypt and Britain for possession of the Sudan, on Egypt's struggle for independence and at the failure of democracy to take root within the country.

As a working-class Dubliner who performed an important function in inspiring and best Dáil Éireann in its formative phases, Arthur Griffith’s existence and global is without doubt one of the maximum home windows into realizing the dynamics of the Irish revolution. Owen McGee’s authoritative biography is predicated on interesting unique learn and provides a clean research and interpretation of Griffith’s lifestyles and the commercial foundation of the political background of the era.

Griffith has been typified as ‘the final younger Irelander’ and Owen McGee’s masterly account displays in this through reading the very various conceptions of Irish nationalism that existed earlier than and after the formation of the Irish kingdom. It additionally means that Griffith’s trust within the significance of financial freedoms and the facility of an autonomous eire to supply for its personal humans, used to be an incredible that encouraged the following evolution of the Irish state.