Bogen behandler i fem afsnit det afgørende slag om Berlin imellem russerne og tyskerne under 2. Verdenskrig i foråret 1945: I første afsnit biografiske oplysninger om marshal Zhukov samt om udviklingen i den russiske og tyske hær frem til slaget, andet afsnit om brohovederne, tr…
"This is the first volume in English to examine in detail one of the most remarkable collaborations between a writer and filmmaker in European cinema. Focusing on the four films Wim Wenders and Peter Handke made between 1969 and 1987 (3 American LPs, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the…
West Germany following the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But this disorientating landscape proved fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experim…
Ischinger examines the root causes of the current conflicts and suggests how Europe can successfully address the most urgent challenges facing the continent. The European Union, he suggests, is poised to become a more powerful actor on the world stage, able to shape global polit…
"The world appears to be at another major turning point. Tensions between the United States and China threaten a resumption of great power conflict. Global institutions are being tested as never before, and hard-edged nationalism has resurfaced as a major force in both democraci…
In the 1960s, Berlin's two zoos became symbols of the divided city's two halves. Eventually the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race: competing to have the most pandas and hippos
Herimod slutningen af den anden verdenskrig kastede de tyske marineteknikere sig over ukonventionelle våben: Dværgubåde, radiokontrollerede fartøjer med krigsladninger, frømænd og undervandssabotage. Trods dårlige vilkår og ramt af mange tab forsatte man, med stort personligt mo…
A biography of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a man with two homelands, born of a German father and a Russian mother in the USSR. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge beca…