This project book shows the preparatory drawings, collages, photographs of the installation and of the completed work of art "Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-1995."

Nu de totalitaire staat zowel in de communistische als in de kapitalistische wereld een steeds dreigender opmars maakt, is Bakoenin's centraal stellen van het begrip vrijheid als noodzakelijke basis voor elk streven naar sociale en maatschappelijke vernieuwing opnieuw actueel. Arthur Lehning heeft wereldfaam verworven met de uitgave van Bakoenin's complete werk en diverse publikaties over Bakoenin en de betekenis van zijn sociale en politieke opvattingen. In het Bakoenin-jaar 1976 (Michael Bakoenin overleed te Bern op 1 juli 1876) heeft hij de eerste complete Nederlandse vertaling geredigeerd en ingeleid van Bakoenin's biecht. Het manuscript, een bericht over Bakoenin's revolutionaire activiteiten opgezet als een biecht aan tsaar Nikolaas I, werd na de Russische revolutie in de tsaristische geheime archieven ontdekt, voorzien van wel heel merkwaardig Tsaristisch commentaar in de marge, wat dan ook in de Nederlandse vertaling is overgenomen. Een Machiavellistisch meesterstuk.

Twee autobiografische geschriften van de Duitse letterkundige (1886-1956), waarin hij zijn arische afstamming wil aantonen en zijn leven in de nazi-tijd schetst

Beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de laatste weken van Adolf Hitlers leven.

Levensbeschrijving van de journalist en sociaal-democratische politicus, een van de oprichters en leiders van de SDAP.

Een prachtig portret van Nederlands grootste komiek

Over de opkomst en heerschappij van Vladimir Poetin

September 1938. In power more than five years, Hitler unilaterally dismantled the Treaty of Versailles, provision by provision, daring Britain and France to stand up to him. Earlier that year, he forced Austria into his Third Reich without firing a single shot. Now his sights were set on Czechoslovakia.

It was in this dangerous climate that the first anti-Nazi coup was born. The plot was spearheaded by Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Oster, and its members included top German military leaders, the Berlin police, local troop commanders, civil authorities, religious leaders, and a group of resisters whose names have been wiped from the pages of history. Their mission was to kill Hitler and to overthrow the Nazi regime.

Using British and German sources and previously unknown documents in the Military History Institute of the U.S. Army War College, historian Terry Parssinen has documented this conspiracy. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this highly provocative work is narrative history at its best.

The Hitler who arrived in Vienna in 1907 was a young aspiring artist; the man who left six years later was a hate-filled dictator in the making, destined to plunge the world into war. Jones' look at Hitler's formative years provides a startling and insightful picture into the future Fuhrer, examining his career as an artist, his acquaintances, and his developing political beliefs. Jones also explores the Vienna of those fragile years before World War I, a home to an amazing array of artists, thinkers, and future leaders, including Sigmund Freud, composer Gustav Mahler, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Communist leader Leon Trotsky, painter Gustav Klimt, composer Arnold Schoenberg, and many others. In this remarkable setting, where the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were running out and suicide became a widespread trend, Jones shows how the tumultuous period left a significant mark on the young Hitler.

Annotation. No historical event has exerted more influence on Americas postWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger warAmerican presidents from Harry Truman through George W. Bush have relied on the Munich analogy not only to interpret perceived security threats but also to mobilize public opinion for military action. In The Specter of Munich, noted defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes an unconventional look at a disastrous chapter in Western diplomatic history. After identifying the complex considerations behind the Anglo-French appeasement of Hitler and the reasons for the policys failure, Record disputes the stock thesis that unchecked aggression always invites further aggression. He proceeds to identify other lessons of the 1930s more relevant to meeting todays U.S. foreign policy and security challenges. Among those lessons are the severe penalties that foreign policy miscalculation can incur, the constraints of public opinion in a modern democracy, and the virtue of consistency in threatening and using force. The Specter of Munichconcludes that though todays global political, military, and economic environment differs considerably from that of the 1930s, the United States is making some of the same strategic mistakes in its war on terrorism that the British and French made in their attempts to protect themselves against Nazi Germany. Not the least of these mistakes is the continued reliance on the specter of Adolf Hitler to interpret today's foreign security threats.

Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning film

WINNER OF BEST PICTURE AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBES

Tehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American embassy and held sixty Americans captive for a gruelling 444 days. But until now the CIA has never revealed the twist to the Iran Hostage Crisis: six Americans escaped.

The escape plot was run by Antonio Mendez, head of the CIA's extraction team and a master of disguise. Mendez came up with an idea so daring and potentially foolish that it seemed destined for Hollywood... and indeed it was. He invented a fake sci-fi film called 'Argo' (from the actual name of the CIA mission, a reference to Jason and the Argonauts). After announcing the production to the movie industry, Mendez put together a team of real 1970s Hollywood actors, directors and producers - along with covert CIA officers. They would travel to revolutionary Iran under a foreign film visa, and while 'scouting locations' throughout the country they would track down the six Americans who were hiding out. After giving them false identities as part of the film crew, they would spirit them back across the border.

One part 'Ocean's 11' and another part 'Black Hawk Down', Mendez's mind-bogglingly complicated and risky gamble paid off: each escapee was extracted without a shot being fired. Mendez is considered one of the greatest officers in CIA history. The story of this, his greatest mission, has never been told.

Now an acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, with Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin and John Goodman'

Antonio Mendez was cited by Richard Clarke as one of the top two or three CIA agents in history. He received the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit, the Trailblazer Medallion and the Intelligence Star - for his rescue of six Americans from revolutionary Iran. He and his wife, also a famed agent, were technical consultants on the television series 'The Agency' and founding board members of the International Spy Museum in Washington.

Matt Baglio is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist. His writing appears regularly in the Daily Mail and the Associated Press.

Based on Nixon s overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we ve come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened
Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA s widespread surveillance program, the scandal has taken on new significance. Yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has told the full story of his involvement in Watergate.
In The Nixon Defense, former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon s secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: What did President
Nixon know and when did he know it?
Through narrative and contemporaneous dialogue, Dean connects dots that have never been connected, including revealing how and why the Watergate break-in occurred, what was on the mysterious 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon s recorded conversations, and more.
In what will stand as the most authoritative account of one of America s worst political scandals, The Nixon Defense shows how the disastrous mistakes of Watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time."

Studie over de Sovjet-Unie in de jaren 1938-1968 in de vorm van een verhaal over Sovjet-burgers en -bestuurders die onder het communisme een veelbelovende toekomst tegemoet lijken te gaan.

Verslag van het functioneren van de Duitse contraspionagedienst in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en van het gebruik dat zij daarbij maakten van de Nederlander Anton van der Waals.

Reconstructie van de moord in 1941 op de joodse inwoners van het Poolse dorpje Jedwabne door de Poolse inwoners van het dorp.

One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of the Second World War - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response it inspired and its larger implications. In Kristallnacht, Martin Gilbert seamlessly combines a moving account of the suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime with a sophisticated analysis of the gradual process, which made the horrors of the Third Reich possible. Broadening his canvas, Gilbert also powerfully depicts how the rest of the world failed Europe's increasingly desperate Jewish population: in the aftermath to Kristallnacht almost every country was asked to help; most would not do so, despite the transport of a staggering 10,000 German Jewish children to Britain.

Een familie van fanatieke nazi's hield van haar als van hun eigen dochter. Zelf werd ze verliefd op een Duitse ingenieur die tot in de laatste dagen van de oorlog Messerschmitts fabriceerde. De Volksduitse uit Polen Annie Gmitruk vertelde niemand wie ze werkelijk was: Mala Riva Kizel, een joods meisje uit een groot orthodox gezin uit Warschau. Terwijl haar familie werd omgebracht in de vernietigingskampen van Belzec en Treblinka, wist Mala door een mix van veerkracht, geluk, charme en een liefde voor taal te ontkomen aan Duitse soldaten, antisemitische Poolse boeren en een Oekraïense verrader die haar Jiddisch had horen praten in haar slaap. Via Israël belandt ze uiteindelijk in Nederland. Daar woont ze nu nog altijd. 'Liever dier dan mens' is de reconstructie van de onwaarschijnlijke overlevingstocht van een uitzonderlijke vrouw. Haar herinneringen brachten Van Os naar mensen, archieven en plaatsen waar de inktzwarte twintigsteeeuwse geschiedenis van Polen en Duitsland zich in al haar gruwelijke details openbaart. Deze reconstructie leest als een roman en tegelijk als aanklacht tegen de obsessie, van toen en nu, met identiteit en nationaliteit.