When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

Beschrijving van de stad 's-Hertogenbosch die tegelijkertijd een pleidooi is tegen klakkeloze moderne stedenbouw en voor het zorgvuldig omgaan met de kostbare stedenbouwkundige en energetische structuur ervan.

Een onderzoek naar de typologische ontwikkeling en de toekomst van lokale bouwwijzen bij de Dogon in Mali

A practical guide to introducing Japanese design elements into the Western home. 120 colour photos and 200 black and white floor plans illustrate step-by-step DIY projects.

In this book the author writes about the more than 4 years he spent visiting hundreds of Japanese homes and learning as much as possible about their construction, design, furnishings, and relative merits. It is the only authentic record of the traditional home, mats, lamps, screens, gardens, from its general plan to the smallest decorative detail. 307 illustrations.

Part of the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art series (nr. 13), this text is concerned with the feudal domestic architecture of Japan. Other titles in the series include Nara Buddhist Art and The Silk Road and the Shoso-in.

Bevat 82 Kleurenplaten met begeleidende tekst over de daarop afgebeelde vogelsoort

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time, and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."

Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? What was his primary motive for the extermination of the Jews? The Hitler of History answers these questions as fully as any modern work can hope to, with an intellectual boldness that makes it absolutely essential to any understanding of the post-Hitler world.

This country`s most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy`s book is easily the best account of Europe`s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element` Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will help him. The West must stop them. If they fail, the world will go to war.

Richard Overy`s dramatic account re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of civilization.

Na de oorlog hebben tallozen zich gebogen over het verschijnsel Adolf Hitler. Het is inmiddels een cliche dat de omvangrijke literatuur over Hitler niet meer is te overzien. Op internet zijn tientallen miljoenen verwijzingen naar hem te vinden. Maar één facet van het leven van Adolf Hitler is aan de aandacht van de meeste van zijn biografen ontsnapt: zijn ambities als beeldend kunstenaar. Geen museum waagt zich aan een tentoonstelling van zijn schilderijen, aquarellen, tekeningen, decorontwerpen en architectonische schetsen, een catalogus van deze werken is nimmer opgesteld. Toch hebben zijn kunstzinnige aspiraties en niet zijn politieke de eerste dertig jaar van het leven van de Fuhrer beheerst. Hitlers biografen maken wel gewag van zijn kunstenaarschap, maar zoeken daarin voornamelijk naar voorafspiegelingen van de latere dictator en misdadiger. Lambert Giebels concentreerde zich juist op de ontwikkeling van Hitler als beeldend kunstenaar, om vervolgens na te gaan of diens eerste dertig levensjaren herkenningspunten bieden voor later.

Notities waarin de Amerikaanse letterkundige bespiegelt over het verlies van zijn vader en het opgroeien van zijn zoontje. Flaptekst: Een zoon doet een ontroerende poging greep te krijgen op de vage, bijna zichzelf ontkennende persoonlijkheid van zijn vader. Diens plotselinge dood confronteert de zoon met een vloedgolf van herinneringen, gevoelens en verloren gegane illusies. De verteller wil weten hoe en wie zijn vader was. Een zestig jaar oud moordmysterie moet van beslissende invloed zijn geweest op de contradicties in het karakter en gedrag van zijn vader. De zoektocht werpt de verteller definitief op zichzelf terug. Door de scheiding van zijn vrouw en kinderen is hijzelf in een luchtledig komen te hangen. zijn perspectieven lijken verschrompeld. 

Paul Auster bezat al een reputatie als dichter, essayist en vertaler toen hij in 1982 Het spinsel van de eenzaamheid publiceerde. Het boek is geheel gebaseerd op autobiografisch materiaal, al beschouwt Paul Auster zelf het niet als een integrale autobiografie: 'Ik hoopte de waarheid omtrent een aantal zaken te kunnen achterhalen en heb daarvoor mijn persoonlijke leven prijsgegeven. Ik diende slechts als voorbeeld.' Overpeinzingen, herinneringen en associaties zijn de middelen waarmee Auster zicht probeert te krijgen op de onlosmakelijke banden tussen heden en verleden.

Begin dit jaar verscheen "Bloemen van het kwaad", een door Paul Damen verzorgde, meer dan 500 pagina's tellende bundeling van gedichten door 33 dictators, met telkens een toelichting en een korte biografie. Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, allemaal schreven ze gedichten. Te vaak vroegen lezers: moet Geert Wilders er niet bij, als dictator in de dop? Als definitief antwoord daarop nu, van dezelfde auteur, de bijlage "Gedachten over de Grote Geert", waarom Wilders wel of niet een dichtende dictator is.

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

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

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.