Author: Richard Hargreave
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: normandy, germans
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1844154475
ISBN-13: 9781844154470
The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view whereas the defenders’ angle has been largely ignored.While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no-one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler’s mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break.After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stale-mate prevailed. The German
Author: Rudolph Binion
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Keywords: germans, among, hitler
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 1984-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0875805310
ISBN-13: 9780875805313
Author: Peter Fritzsche
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: nazis, germans
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674350928
ISBN-13: 9780674350922
Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people.
Author: Gordon A. Craig
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: meridian, germans
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0452010853
ISBN-13: 9780452010857
Adopting a broad historical perspective, the author analyzes the intricacies of the German identity. He encapsulates both the situation today and its roots in the past. A new afterword brings this edition up-to-date.
Author: Ellen Merrill
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: louisiana, germans
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1589802446
ISBN-13: 9781589802445
During the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, near Lecompte, and in North Louisiana near Minden.
Author:
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: america, germans, century, nineteenth
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 080635271X
ISBN-13: 9780806352718
Although the source and scope of the information in this work vary, for the most part the entries include the passenger’s name, place of origin, number of persons traveling with the passenger, and year of departure. Many also contain more detail, providing the immigrant’s age, occupation, next of kin, sponsors, and date of birth, as well as the name of ship and date of departure.
Author: Panikos Panayi
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Keywords: britain, germans
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1852851260
ISBN-13: 9781852851262
German-speaking people have always lived, either as temporary or as long-term residents, in the British Isles. While the majority of the visitors arrived to pursue trade, others came for a wide variety of reasons. In the sixteenth century German reformers came to promote Protestantism. In 1714 the Elector of Hanover came because he had inherited the crown. In Victorian times Karl Marx came to write Das Kapital in the British Museum. The nineteenth century was perhaps the highpoint in the history of German settlement, with the establishment of widespread German communities and organisations. Th
