Helmut Schmidt is the neglected chancellor of modern German history, overshadowed by 'the greats' - Bismarck, Adenauer, Brandt and Kohl. This volume retrieves Schmidt's true significance as a pivotal figure who helped reshape the global order during the crisis-ridden 1970s. This…
In this authoritative book, the only work to cover the full sweep of German foreign policy since the end of World War II, noted scholar Helga Haftendorn explores Germany's remarkable recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Through a chronological series of case studies, he…
Chronologie (1945-49) der Teilung Deutschlands - unter besonderer Beachtung der unterschiedlichen ökonomischen Verhältnisse, die als äSchrittmacher der Spaltungä im Osten wie im Westen charakerisiert werden.
After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and '2…
Vesttyskland begyndte at bygge krigsskibe i 1959, og bogen handler med tekst og billeder om sådanne fire helt nye destroyere, som var færdige og bemandede fra 1964. Desuden otte mere historiske sider om enkelte krigsskibe fra 1. og 2. verdenskrig, højst et par sider om hvert.
Præsident George Bush (1989-1993) og hans sikkerhedspolitiske rådgiver har udgivet deres tilbageblik på håndteringen af en verden i forvandling fra Murens fald til sejren i Golfkrigen ... Udenrigspolitik; Internationale relationer; Desert Storm.
How did West German politicians of the 1950s deal with the problem of recovering from the Nazi past? Largely by stopping the punishment for Nazi crimes, according to Norbert Frei. This provocative book shows that both the government of Konrad Adenauer and the Social Democratic o…